Super Sad True Love Story
A Novel
(Sprache: Englisch)
Das gänzlich ungebildete Amerika der nahen Zukunft steht kurz vor dem Zusammenbruch. Der arme Lenny Abramov, 39jähriger Sohn eines russischen Immigranten, ist der stolze Autor des vermutlich letzten Tagebuchs der Welt und er liebt Bücher, auch wenn diese...
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Das gänzlich ungebildete Amerika der nahen Zukunft steht kurz vor dem Zusammenbruch. Der arme Lenny Abramov, 39jähriger Sohn eines russischen Immigranten, ist der stolze Autor des vermutlich letzten Tagebuchs der Welt und er liebt Bücher, auch wenn diese mittlerweile 'printed, bound media artefacts' heißen und allgemein als lästig und übelriechend empfunden werden. Aber noch mehr als Bücher liebt er Eunice Park. Als Unruhen in New York ausbrechen und die Strassen von Panzern gesäumt werden, muss Lenny sie davon überzeugen, dass in einer Welt ohne Standards und Stabilität, wahre Menschlichkeit der einzige Wert ist.
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The author of two critically acclaimed novels, The Russian Debutante's Handbook and Absurdistan, Gary Shteyngart has risen to the top of the fiction world. Now, in his hilarious and heartfelt new novel, he envisions 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.In a very near future-oh, let's say next Tuesday-a functionally illiterate America is about to collapse. But don't that tell that to poor Lenny Abramov, the thirty-nine-year-old son of an angry Russian immigrant janitor, proud author of what may well be the world's last diary, and less-proud owner of a bald spot shaped like the great state of Ohio. Despite his job at an outfit called Post-Human Services, which attempts to provide immortality for its super-rich clientele, death is clearly stalking this cholesterol-rich morsel of a man. And why shouldn't it? Lenny's from a different century-he totally loves books (or "printed, bound media artifacts," as they're now known), even though most of his peers find them smelly and annoying. But even more than books, Lenny loves Eunice Park, an impossibly cute and impossibly cruel twenty-four-year-old Korean American woman who just graduated from Elderbird College with a major in Images and a minor in Assertiveness.
After meeting Lenny on an extended Roman holiday, blistering Eunice puts that Assertiveness minor to work, teaching our "ancient dork" effective new ways to brush his teeth and making him buy a cottony nonflammable wardrobe. But America proves less flame-resistant than Lenny's new threads. The country is crushed by a credit crisis, riots break out in New York's Central Park, the city's streets are lined with National Guard tanks on every corner, the dollar is so over, and our patient Chinese creditors may just be ready to foreclose on the whole mess. Undeterred, Lenny vows to love both Eunice and his homeland. He's going to convince his fickle new love
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that in a time without standards or stability, in a world where single people can determine a dating prospect's "hotness" and "sustainability" with the click of a button, in a society where the privileged may live forever but the unfortunate will die all too soon, there is still value in being a real human being.
Wildly funny, rich, and humane, Super Sad True Love Story is a knockout novel by a young master, a book in which falling in love just may redeem a planet falling apart.
Wildly funny, rich, and humane, Super Sad True Love Story is a knockout novel by a young master, a book in which falling in love just may redeem a planet falling apart.
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Autoren-Porträt von Gary Shteyngart
Gary Shteyngart wurde 1972 in Leningrad (St. Petersburg) geboren und emigrierte mit seinen jüdisch-russischen Eltern im Alter von sieben Jahren nach Queens, New York. Er studierte Politikwissenschaften am Oberlin College und arbeitete danach für verschiedene Non-Profit-Organisationen. Als Reise- und Kulturjournalist schreibt Shteyngart unter anderem für den New Yorker, Granta und die New York Times. Er lebt in New York.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Gary Shteyngart
- 2010, 352 Seiten, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Penguin Random House
- ISBN-10: 1400066409
- ISBN-13: 9781400066407
Sprache:
Englisch
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