The Sacred Book of the Werewolf (Russian: «Священная книга оборотня») is a novel by Victor Pelevin first published in 2004. This book is in the great Russian tradition of social satire running from Gogol through to Bulgakov, according to the journalists of The Guardian. In this satirical, erotic allegory of the post-Soviet and post-9/11 world, Victor Pelevin gives new meaning to the words "unreliable narrator", according to the journalists of The New York Times.