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RO60120486. ABSURDISTAN. 2007. In-12. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 333 pages.. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon
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'The post-Soviet era's own Joseph Heller.' -- Salon *'Like a victorious wrestler, this novel is so immodestly vigorous, so burstingly sure of its barbaric excellence, that simply by breathing, sweating and standing upright it exalts itself.' -- New York Times Book Review *'It's the best American comic novel since 'The Confederacy of Dunces.' -- Simon Schama
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Gary Shteyngart is the New York Times bestselling author of the memoir Little Failure (a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist) and the novels Super Sad True Love Story (winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize), Absurdistan, and The Russian Debutante's Handbook (winner of the Stephen Crane Award for First Fiction and the National Jewish Book Award for Fiction). His books regularly appear on best-of lists around the world and have been published in thirty countries.
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- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 0812971671
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Book Description Softcover. Condition: new. Product DescriptionAbsurdistan is not just a hilarious novel but a record of a particular peak in the history of human folly No one is more capable of dealing with the transition from the hell of socialism to the hell of capitalism in Eastern Europe than Shteyngart the greatgreat grandson of one Nikolai Gogol and the funniest foreigner aliveAleksandar HemonFrom the critically acclaimed bestselling author of The Russian Debutantes Handbook comes the uproarious and poignant story of one very fat man and one very small countryMeet Misha Vainberg aka Snack Daddy a 325pound disaster of a human being son of the 1238thrichest man in Russia proud holder of a degree in multicultural studies from Accidental College USA dont even ask and patriot of no country save the great City of New York Poor Misha just wants to live in the South Bronx with his hot Latina girlfriend but after his gangster father murders an Oklahoma businessman in Russia all hopes of a US visa are lostSalvation lies in the tiny oilrich nation of Absurdistan 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 twentyfirst centuryWith the enormous success of The Russian Debutantes Handbook Gary Shteyngart established himself as a central figure in todays literary worldone of the most talented and entertaining writers of his generation according to The New York Observer In Absurdistan he delivers an even funnier and wiser literary performance Misha Vainberg is a hero for the new century a glimmer of humanity in a world of dashed hopesAbout the AuthorGary Shteyngart is the New York Times bestselling author of the memoir Little Failure a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist and the novels Super Sad True Love Story winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize Absurdistan and The Russian Debutantes Handbook winner of the Stephen Crane Award for First Fiction and the National Jewish Book Award for Fiction His books regularly appear on bestof lists around the world and have been published in thirty countriesExcerpt Reprinted by permission All rights reserved1The Night in QuestionJune 15 2001I am Misha Borisovich Vainberg age thirty a grossly overweight man with small deeply set blue eyes a pretty Jewish beak that brings to mind the most distinguished breed of parrot and lips so delicate you would want to wipe them with the naked back of your handFor many of my last years I have lived in St Petersburg Russia neither by choice nor by desire The City of the Czars the Venice of the North Russias cultural capital forget all that By the year 2001 our St Leninsburg has taken on the appearance of a phantasmagoric thirdworld city our neoclassical buildings sinking into the crapchoked canals bizarre peasant huts fashioned out of corrugated metal and plywood colonizing the broad avenues with their capitalist iconography cigarette ads featuring an American football player catching a hamburger with a baseball mitt and what is worst of all our intelligent depressive citizenry has been replaced by a new race of mutants dressed in studied imitation of the West young women in tight Lycra their scoopedup little breasts pointing at once to New York and Shanghai with men in fake black Calvin Klein jeans hanging limply around their cavedin assesThe good news is that when youre an incorrigible fatso like me325 pounds at last countand the son of the 1238th richest man in Russia all of St Leninsburg rushes out to service you the drawbridges lower themselves as you advance and the pretty palaces line up alongside the canal banks thrusting their bu. Seller Inventory # DADAX0812971671
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