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Super Sad True Love Story

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ABOUT
THE BOOK

In the near future, America is crushed by a financial crisis and our patient Chinese creditors may just be ready to foreclose on the whole mess. Then Lenny Abramov, son of an Russian immigrant janitor and ardent fan of “printed, bound media artifacts” (aka books), meets Eunice Park, an impossibly cute Korean American woman with a major in Images and a minor in Assertiveness. Could falling in love redeem a planet falling apart?

ABOUT
THE AUTHOR Gary
Shteyngart

Gary Shteyngart is the bestselling author of the memoir Little Failure and the novels Super Sad True Love Story (winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize), Absurdistan, The Russian Debutante’s Handbook (winner of the Stephen Crane Award for First Fiction and Lake Success. His books have been published in thirty countries.

Gary Shteyngart is the bestselling author of the memoir Little Failure and the novels Super Sad True Love Story (winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize), Absurdistan, The Russian Debutante’s Handbook (winner of the Stephen Crane Award for First Fiction and Lake Success. His books have been published in thirty countries.

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NOMINATING LIBRARY COMMENTS

This is a brilliantly written dystopian novel. It is a scary take on our social media future and asks where will all this “progression” take society. Smarter society or shallow society? – This is a book that not only shows the ebullient satiric gifts Shteyngart demonstrated in his debut, but that also uncovers his abilities to write deeply about love, loss and mortality – Sad, satiric and clever, Shteyngart posits a not-too-distant future that feels like now. He observes the state of the world and wonders how we can retain our humanity amongst the mindless consumerism of the times – In this novel set in the near future the whole world may be falling apart, but Lenny Abramov is still willing to believe that love will save the planet.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Country
Russia, United States
Original Language
English
Publisher
Random House Inc.

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