Absurdistan
Product description
Review
'One of the greatest comic inventions in recent fiction'-- London Review of Books
'Shteyngart's ludicrous mayhem is highly perceptive and uproarious'
-- Herald
'The novel teeters between different versions of the world. Shteyngart's considerable achievement is to make them plausible and extremely funny' -- Daily Telegraph, Peter Scott
`At once riotously cynical and disarmingly sweet, this rich satire rattles along at a speed that... brings plenty of laughs'
-- Guardian
`Gary Shteyngart is a satirist of alpha quality ... An exuberant, freewheeling narrative is decorated by classy one-liners'
--Sunday Telegraph, Sally Cousins
A riotous satirical story. --Sunday Times Cultures' 100 Books to Love
About the Author
Gary Shteyngart was recently selected as one of 'Granta's Bestof Young American Novelists 2007'. He has written for the New Yorker, New
York Times, GQ, Esquire and Granta Magazine. His first novel, 'The Russian
Debutante's Handbook' (2003), was named a New York Times Notable Book and
one of the best debuts of the year by the Guardian. It was awarded the
Stephen Crane Award for First Fiction and the National Jewish Book Award
for Fiction.
Shteyngart was born in Leningrad (St Petersburg) in 1972, and moved to
America aged seven when his family fled the Soviet Union. He lives in New
Product details
- Publisher : Granta Books; 1st Edition 3rd Printing (4 Feb. 2008)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 333 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1847080065
- ISBN-13 : 978-1847080066
- Dimensions : 12.9 x 2.4 x 19.8 cm
