If you liked A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius and Everything is Illuminated, you'll love Gary Shteyngart's Little Failure. Gary Shteyngart's loving but mismatched parents dreamed that he would become a lawyer, or at least an accountant, something their distracted son was simply not cut out [...]
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After three acclaimed novels, Gary Shteyngart turns to memoir in a candid, witty, deeply poignant account of his life so far. Shteyngart shares his American immigrant experience, moving back and forth through time and memory with self-deprecating humor, moving insight[...]
Hoping to get out of Russia and return to his adopted home in the U.S., Misha Vainberg, the obese son of a wealthy Russian, makes his way to Absurdsvani, a small unstable country on the brink of civil war, where he becomes embroiled in the ridiculous conflict, risks his life, and falls in love, all [...]
"NEW YORK TIMES "BESTSELLER - NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR "SO FAR" BY "TIME "AND "THE WASHINGTON POST "- NAMED ONE OF "KIRKUS REVIEWS"' "NEW BOOKS DESTINED TO BECOME CLASSICS" - SHORTLISTED FOR THE "SPEAR'S "BOOK AWARD IN MEMOIR
"Little Failure" is the all too true story of an immigr[...]
In a novel about being an outsider in America and what it means to be an American, Vladimir, a young Russian-American immigrant, pursues his dreams of success, wealth, and a girlfriend, as his quest takes him deep into uncharted territory.[...]
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.[...]
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 client[...]
New York, Summer, Very near future, Economic collapse, tanks in the streets, riots in Central Park, defeat in Venezuela, books are quaint artefacts, what's left of the indebted United States is about to be parcelled out to the rising nations of Finance-London and China-Worldwide, and what's left of [...]
Rakkaasta Amerikastaan karkotetun emigrantin slaavilainen, lihava ja upporikas sydän itkee absurdissa öljyvaltiossa. Mishka Vainberg on ajautunut monen mutkan kautta Absurdistaniin, luonnonvaroiltaan rikkaaseen entiseen neuvostotasavaltaan. Hinku takaisin Amerikkaan, josta hänet on miljardööri-[...]
William Girshkin är en rysk invandrare i New York med ett trist byråkratjobb på en immigrantbyrå och en stor flickvän som försörjer sig i S&M-branschen. Hans pappa är läkare och specialiserad på försäkringsbedrägeri och modern är en hårdför finanskvinna. Situationen ser lite mörk u[...]
Micha Vainberg är son till en av de rikaste männen i Ryssland. I tolv år har han bott i USA, men efter att hans pappa mördat en framträdande affärsman och senare själv dyker upp död beger han sig till St. Petersburg på begravning. Där blir han kvar, förvägrad amerikanskt visum. Hans enda[...]