Super Sad True Love Story - Softcover
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 interpersonal relations can be summarized by a couple of flashing statistics on attractiveness and wealth. But Lenny Abramov is too in love to notice any of it. The son of working-class Russian immigrants, a bumbling minor functionary in a company that just may hold the secret to eternal life, and the reluctant star of a show called "101 People We Need To Feel Sorry For", he has fallen way too hard for the imperious Eunice Park, a blistering, beautiful Korean-American, a seductive shopper and brilliant money-spender who still knows how to speak in sentences, and a true child of her times. As the country around them explodes into a million glittering pieces, the two will discover whether love is still possible in a world where words have lost their meaning, and where every touch, embrace and kiss could be mistaken for a commodity.
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'Shteyngart's ventriloquism is remarkable, cleverly observed and highly amusing'
--Guardian
'Gary Shteyngart's wonderful new novel is a supersad, superfunny, superaffecting performance' --Scotland on Sunday
'A fine contribution to dystopian literature' --The Times
`Shteyngart balances spiky, knowing social commentary with bucketloads of tenderness' --New Statesman
`The writing is never less than stylish and witty, and the sense of disaster is unfailingly lyrical'
--Scotsman
About the Author:
--Guardian
'Gary Shteyngart's wonderful new novel is a supersad, superfunny, superaffecting performance' --Scotland on Sunday
'A fine contribution to dystopian literature' --The Times
`Shteyngart balances spiky, knowing social commentary with bucketloads of tenderness' --New Statesman
`The writing is never less than stylish and witty, and the sense of disaster is unfailingly lyrical'
--Scotsman
GARY SHTEYNGART was born in Leningrad in 1972 and moved to the United States with his family seven years later. He is the author of two previous novels: The Russian Debutante's Handbook, named one of the best debuts of the year by the Guardian, and the bestselling Absurdistan.
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- PublisherRandom House Inc.
- Publication date2010
- ISBN 10 0812981952
- ISBN 13 9780812981957
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages352
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