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***New York Times bestseller!*** 'A masterpiece . . . There cannot
be a more relevant novel for our moment, certainly not one with
such beauty of description, depth of feeling, and, as always,
humour.'-Andrew Sean Greer, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Less
It's March 2020 and a calamity is unfolding. A group of friends and
friends-of-friends gathers in a country house to wait out the
pandemic. Over the next six months, new friendships and romances
will take hold, while old betrayals will emerge, forcing each
character to reevaluate whom they love and what matters most. The
unlikely cast of characters includes a Russian-born novelist; his
Russian-born psychiatrist wife; their precocious child obsessed
with K-pop; a struggling Indian American writer; a wildly
successful Korean American app developer; a global dandy with three
passports; a Southern flamethrower of an essayist; and a movie
star, the Actor, whose arrival upsets the equilibrium of this
chosen family. Both elegiac and very, very funny, Our Country
Friends is the most ambitious book yet by the author of the beloved
bestseller Super Sad True Love Story.
*Over 50 Best of 2018 listings worldwide* 'Gary Shteyngart hears
America perfectly; its fatuity, its poignant lament, its boisterous
self-loathing. Its heartbeat. Reading him sometimes makes me want
to scream - with recognition and with pure hilarity' - Richard Ford
A riotously satirical road trip through modern America from the
brilliant author of Super Sad True Love Story and Absurdistan Barry
Cohen, master of the universe, has just had a very public meltdown
involving a dinner party, an insider trading investigation and a
$30,000 bottle of Japanese whisky. So he flees New York City,
leaving behind his beautiful young wife and son, but remembering to
bring his six favourite designer watches. Zig-zagging south through
Trump's America on a Greyhound Bus pilgrimmage he is singularly
unprepared for, Barry heads to Texas - to find his old college
girlfriend and, with her, a shot at a second chance... Lake Success
marries the trademark Shteyngart wit with an astonishing emotional
resonance, capturing the vivid eccentricity and contradictions of
America right now while speaking to the universal human experience
of love, belonging, and the pursuit of happiness. 'A trip through
the American wasteland - from the people who have too little, to
the people who have too much. Incredibly smart, incredibly funny,
incredibly tragic, and therefore incredibly human, this is the
perfect novel for these dysfunctional times' - Nathan Hill 'The
funniest book you'll read all year. A rollicking and zinger-filled
road trip [that] sneakily deepens into a poignant tale of a man
trying to outrace his problems.I was utterly floored' - Maria
Semple 'Stupendous... Reflecting with perfect comedy and horrible
tragedy exactly what America feels like right this minute... I
barked with laughter at the same time as wincing in pain' Elizabeth
Gilbert
***New York Times bestseller, shortlisted for 2022 Bollinger
Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction!*** 'It's a true
pleasure to sink into Shteyngart's expansive, benevolent
storytelling' Sunday Times 'A masterpiece . . . There cannot be a
more relevant novel for our moment, certainly not one with such
beauty of description, depth of feeling, and, as always,
humour.'-Andrew Sean Greer, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Less
It's March 2020 and a calamity is unfolding. A group of friends and
friends-of-friends gathers in a country house to wait out the
pandemic. Over the next six months, new friendships and romances
will take hold, while old betrayals will emerge, forcing each
character to reevaluate whom they love and what matters most. The
unlikely cast of characters includes a Russian-born novelist; his
Russian-born psychiatrist wife; their precocious child obsessed
with K-pop; a struggling Indian American writer; a wildly
successful Korean American app developer; a global dandy with three
passports; a Southern flamethrower of an essayist; and a movie
star, the Actor, whose arrival upsets the equilibrium of this
chosen family. Both elegiac and very, very funny, Our Country
Friends is the most ambitious book yet by the author of the beloved
bestseller Super Sad True Love Story.
A "NEW YORK TIMES" NOTABLE BOOK
SELECTED ONE OF 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
MICHIKO KAKUTANI, "THE NEW YORK TIMES"
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
"The Washington Post - The Boston Globe - San Francisco Chronicle -
The Seattle Times - O: The Oprah Magazine" - Maureen Corrigan, NPR
- Salon - Slate - Minneapolis "Star Tribune - St. Louis
Post-Dispatch - The Kansas City Star - Charlotte Observer - The
Globe and Mail - Vancouver Sun - Montreal Gazette - Kirkus Reviews"
In the near future, America is crushed by a financial crisis and
our patient Chinese creditors may just be ready to foreclose on the
whole mess. Then Lenny Abramov, son of an Russian immigrant janitor
and ardent fan of "printed, bound media artifacts" (aka books),
meets Eunice Park, an impossibly cute Korean American woman with a
major in Images and a minor in Assertiveness. Could falling in love
redeem a planet falling apart?
***New York Times bestseller!*** 'A masterpiece . . . There cannot
be a more relevant novel for our moment, certainly not one with
such beauty of description, depth of feeling, and, as always,
humour.'-Andrew Sean Greer, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Less
It's March 2020 and a calamity is unfolding. A group of friends and
friends-of-friends gathers in a country house to wait out the
pandemic. Over the next six months, new friendships and romances
will take hold, while old betrayals will emerge, forcing each
character to reevaluate whom they love and what matters most. The
unlikely cast of characters includes a Russian-born novelist; his
Russian-born psychiatrist wife; their precocious child obsessed
with K-pop; a struggling Indian American writer; a wildly
successful Korean American app developer; a global dandy with three
passports; a Southern flamethrower of an essayist; and a movie
star, the Actor, whose arrival upsets the equilibrium of this
chosen family. Both elegiac and very, very funny, Our Country
Friends is the most ambitious book yet by the author of the beloved
bestseller Super Sad True Love Story.
Winner of the Stephen Crane First Fiction Award, the Samuel Goldberg & Sons Foundation Prize, and one of Book Magazine's Top Ten debuts of 2002. "Vladimir Girshkin — twenty-five-year-old Russian immigrant, "Little Failure" according to his high-achieving mother, unhappy lover to fat dungeon mistress Challah (his "little Challah bread"), and lowly clerk at the bureaucratic Emma Lazarus Immigrant Absorption Society — is about to have his first break. When the unlikely figure of a wealthy but psychotic old Russian war hero appears and introduces Vladimir to his best friend, who just happens to be a small electric fan, Vladimir has little inkling that he is about to embark on an adventure of unrelenting lunacy — one that overturns his assumptions about what it means to be an immigrant in America." The Russian Debutante's Handbook takes us from New York City's Lower East Side to the hip frontier wilderness of Prava — the Eastern European Paris of the '90s — whose grand and glorious beauty is marred only by the shadow of the looming statue of Stalin's foot. There, with the encouragement of the Groundhog, a murderous (but fun-loving) Russian mafioso, Vladimir infiltrates the American ex-pat community with the hope of defrauding his young middle-class compatriots by launching a pyramid scheme that's as stupid as it is brilliant. Things go swimmingly at first, but nothing is quite as it seems in Prava, and Vladimir learns that in order to reinvent himself, he must first discover who he really is.
In a very near future, a functionally illiterate America is about
to collapse. But don't tell that to poor Lenny Abramov, proud
author of what may well be the world's last diary. Despite his job
at an outfit called 'Post-Human Services', which attempts to
provide immortality for its super-rich clientele, death is clearly
stalking this cholesterol-rich morsel of a man. And why shouldn't
it? Lenny's from a different century. He TOTALLY loves books (or
'printed, bound media artifacts' as they're now known), even though
most of his peers find them smelly and annoying. But even more than
books, Lenny loves Eunice Park, an impossibly cute and impossibly
cruel twenty-four-year-old Korean-American woman who just graduated
from Elderbird College with a major in 'Images' and a minor in
'Assertiveness'. When riots break out in New York's Central Park,
the city's streets are lined with National Guard tanks and patient
Chinese creditors look ready to foreclose on the whole mess, Lenny
vows to convince his fickle new love that in a time without
standards or stability, there is still value in being a real human
being.
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Absurdistan (Paperback)
Gary Shteyngart
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R255
R208
Discovery Miles 2 080
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Meet Misha Vainberg, aka Snack Daddy, a 325-pound disaster of a
human being, son of the 1,238th-richest man in Russia and proud
holder of a degree in multicultural studies from Accidental
College, USA. Misha is an American impounded in a Russian's body
and the only place he feels at home is New York; he just wants to
live in the South Bronx with his Latina girlfriend, but after his
gangster father murders an Oklahoma businessman in Russia, all
hopes of a US visa are lost. Salvation lies in the tiny oil-rich
nation of Absurdistan (a fictional former Soviet republic), where a
crooked consular officer will sell Misha a Belgian passport. But
after a civil war breaks out between two competing ethnic groups
and a local warlord installs hapless Misha as minister of
multicultural affairs, our hero soon finds himself covered in oil,
fighting for his life, falling in love, and trying to figure out if
a normal life is still possible in the twenty-first century.
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Ravelstein (Paperback)
Saul Bellow; Introduction by Gary Shteyngart
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R381
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