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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 , Time , Los Angeles Times , New York Post, Town & Country , Good Housekeeping ,...

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A 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. Meet Misha Vainberg, aka Snack Daddy, a 325-pound disaster of a human being, son of the 1,2...

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Little Failure is an autobiography of comic genius by the hilarious Gary Shteyngart.Little Failure - its title the same as the alarming pet-name given to the young Gary Shteyngart by his father when growing up in pre-Glasnost Russia - is one of th...

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*Over 50 Best of 2018 listings worldwide* 'Gary Shteyngart hears America perfectly; its fatuity, its poignant lament, its boisterous self-loathing. Its heartbeat. Reading him sometimes makes me want to scream - with recognition and with pure hilar...

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'Gary Shteyngart hears America perfectly; its fatuity, its poignant lament, its boisterous self-loathing. Its heartbeat. Reading him sometimes makes me want to scream - with recognition and with pure hilarity' - Richard Ford'A trip through the Ame...

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In its adventurous happenings–its abductions, duels, and sexual intrigues–A Hero of Our Time looks backward to the tales of Sir Walter Scott and Lord Byron, so beloved by Russian society in the 1820s and ’30s. In the character of...

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A poignant, sharp-eyed, and bitterly funny tale of a family struggling to stay together in a country rapidly coming apart, told through the eyes of their wondrous ten-year-old daughter, by the bestselling author of Super Sad True Love Story and Ou...

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A deliciously dark tale of America’s dysfunctional coming years—and the timeless and tender feelings that just might bring us back from the brink.NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York ...

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A visionary novel from the author of Super Sad True Love Story and Little Failure.The Russian Debutante's Handbook introduces Vladimir Girshkin, one of the most original and unlikely heroes of recent times. The twenty-five-year-old unhappy lo...

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“Absurdistan 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 Sh...

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***New York Times bestseller, shortlisted for 2022 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction!*** 'It's a true pleasure to sink into Shteyngart's expansive, benevolent storytelling' Sunday Times 'A masterpiece . . . There cannot be a mor...

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'A novel you can read in one sitting that will stay with you forever' Karen Russell 'Very funny, very sad, very sharp, and completely delightful' Elif Batuman 'A classic American road adventure. Gary Shteyngart keeps getting better' Literary Revie...

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'A novel you can read in one sitting that will stay with you forever' Karen Russell 'Very funny, very sad, very sharp, and completely delightful' Elif Batuman 'A classic American road adventure. Gary Shteyngart keeps getting better' Literary Revie...

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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 att...

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Mischa Vainberg ist 30, 147 Kilo schwer und auf der Suche nach der Liebe. Seine Mutter starb, als er noch klein war. Als 18-Jÿhriger schickte ihn sein Vater zum Studium und zur Beschneidung nach Amerika. Doch just als Mischa ihn in St. Petersburg...

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Rasant, urkomisch und bitterböse.Vladimir Girshkin wurde in Leningrad geboren, mit zwölf kam er nach New York. Jetzt ist er 25 und fragt sich, ob sein Job im Emma-Lazarus-Verein zur Förderung der Einwandererintegration tatsÿchlich das Ziel all...

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