books by Shteyngart Gary

books by Shteyngart Gary

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Shteyngart Gary

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: 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 ...

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

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 ...

Absurdistan (in Finnish).
Shteyngart Gary

Like (Helsinki), 2007

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 ...