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Gary Shteyngart

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Super Sad True Love Story (2010)

This book was suggested to me as a "A Brave New World" for the new millenium, with a little "1984" thrown in here and there as well. Those references turned out to be almost mandatory since this book borrows so heavily from both. It also seemed to me that there was a good portion of "A Confederac...

Super Sad True Love Story (2010) by Gary Shteyngart
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Mi chiamavano Piccolo Fallimento (2014)

Author emigrates from Russia with mother and father to New York City in 1979 at age 7. They are part of Jimmy Carter's project to bring Jews out of the Soviet Union. Shteyngart effectively shows how hard it was to fit in in 1980s-90s US. Warring parents don't help a massive insecurity complex. It...

Mi chiamavano Piccolo Fallimento (2014) by Gary Shteyngart
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Little Failure (2014)

Blisteringly honest, funny, and so so sad. Gary Shteyngart, if his memoir is to be believed, was a painfully geeky and excruciatingly lonely child, teen, and adult. His parents, these violent, outrageous and uncouth Soviet Jews, move the family to America in the seventies (when Gary, née Igor, is...

Little Failure (2014) by Gary Shteyngart
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Absurdistan (2007)

The book starts as a pseudo-surrealist consumer comedy (channeling Evelyn Waugh, who Shteyngart name drops, but more closely related to another New York Writer: Arthur Nersesian) and slips into a tragic farce of geopolitical affairs, globalization and war a la Joseph Heller (also directly cited i...

Absurdistan (2007) by Gary Shteyngart
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The Russian Debutante's Handbook (2002)

Somewhere in the middle of this book I wanted to hate it. For reasons unrelated to the book. Or the authorial style. Or the story. I just fell sick. Deep into the night, while the world around me was quietly asleep, I walked in and out of my room. It's 3. Now its 4. And shall it be 6 or 7 when th...

The Russian Debutante's Handbook (2002) by Gary Shteyngart

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