books by Gary Shteyngart     books:     Gary Shteyngart      Russian Debutante's Handbook Gary Shteyngart Riverhead Trade, 2003 dazzling I am glad to see the term "picaresque" applied to this novel, for it truly belongs within that genre. But while the story bounds along, at times verging on the highly improbable, the language dazzles on every page - in every paragraph, in fact. The author, to whom ...             Absurdistan Gary Shteyngart Phoenix Audio, 2006 Shteyngart's second novel (The Russian Debutante's Handbook, 2002, was the first) is a wild ride that follows its protagonist and narrator, Misha Vainburg, from St. Petersburg (or St. Leninsburg as he prefers to call it) to a tiny country in the Caucasus called Absurdsvani, with occasional detours via flashbacks to New York City and Misha's ...             Handbuch für den russischen Debütanten Gary Shteyngart Berlin Verlag, 2003             Absurdistan Gary Shteyngart Granta Bks., 2007             Absurdistan: A Novel Gary Shteyngart Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2007 Slow start, finishes with a bang. No sophomore jinkx here. If anything, Shteyngart's second effort is better than the first. Written in a more aggressive, satirical style than TRDHB. At the beginning you wish he would have stuck with Vladamir Girshkin. At the end, you fall in love with Misha and want ...             A Hero of Our Time (Modern Library Classics) Mikhail Lermontov Modern Library, 2004 The influence of the superfluous man proves ultimately vast. Lermontov is a sleeper by which I mean that he is lesser known and read outside Russia than other immortals. This novel was recommended to me by a Russian friend from Georgia and I was delighted to find a germinal work influenced greatly by Pushkin and Lord Byron. I ...             Absurdistan (in Finnish). Shteyngart Gary Like (Helsinki), 2007             Russian Debutante's Handbook: Library Edition Gary Shteyngart Playaway, 2008             Summer reading set of 10 novels: Abstinence Teacher, Sweet Ruin, Skylight Confessions, Momzillas, Water for ... Sara Gruen, Gary Shteyngart, ... Little, Brown and Co., Boston, 2003          products you might be interested in confessions The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band Gaspipe: Confessions of a Mafia Boss Madonna Confessions Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister: A Novel Waiter Rant: Thanks for the Tip--Confessions of a Cynical Waiter search for books abstinence, absurdistan, confessions, debütanten, momzillas, russischen      toavi.com    web we recommend dazzling randomly chosen DVD: Black Dog