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Gary Shteyngart (author)
Eight friends, one country house, four romances, and six months in isolation-a novel about love, friendship, family, and betrayal, a book that reads like a great Russian novel, or Chekhov…
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Gary Shteyngart
The brilliantly inventive, wildly funny and humane new novel, set in an economically and politically collapsed America, by the author of the bestselling Absurdistan.
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Geoff Hamilton
Provides the first comprehensive examination of Shteyngart’s novels and memoir, introducing readers to one of the most critically acclaimed and commercially successful contemporary American authors. Geoff Hamilton demonstrates that Shteyngart’s…
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Eight friends, one country house, four romances, and six months in isolation-a novelabout love, friendship, family, and betrayal, a book that reads like a great Russiannovel, or Chekhov on the…
Reveals how, by ending up a prize-winning novelist, the author visited great shame on his family.
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Little Failure is Gary Shteyngart’s bestselling and very funny memoir.
From the critically acclaimed, bestselling author of The Russian Debutante'sHandbook comes the uproarious and poignant story of one very fat man and onevery small country.
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When his dream of the perfect life implodes, a self-made millionaire takes a cross-country bus trip in search of his college sweetheart and ideals of youth in the long awaited…
Tells the story of a Soviet family’s trials and tribulations, and of their escape in 1979 to the consumerist promised land of the USA. This title offers an account of…
This national bestseller is a wildly original, brilliantly crafted novel about a young Russian immigrant’s misadventures while trying to figure out what it means to be an American.
An obese Russian hip-hop aficionado strives for love and a US visa in this exuberantly funny and tender book from one of America’s most brilliant comic novelists.
Vladimir is a young Russian-American immigrant whose capitalist dreams and desire for a girlfriend lead him off the straight and narrow into uncharted territory.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * GOOD MORNING AMERICA BUZZ PICK * ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, Financial Times, The Washington Post…
Uno de los mejores libros del ano segun The New York Times Book Review, San Francisco Chronicle, NPR,The Washington Post, O: The Oprah Magazine, Library Journal, Kirkus Reviews y Financial…
The brilliantly inventive, wildly funny and humane novel, set in an economically and politically collapsed America, by the author of the best-selling Absurdistan.
Saul Bellow
Abe Ravelstein is a professor who has lived much beyond his means. His close friend Chick suggests that he put forth a book of his convictions and much to his…
Mikhail Lermontov
Mikhail Lermontov’s A Hero of Our Time was the first modern Russian novel. Published in 1840, it set a model of penetrating observation and psychological depth that would come to…
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