Super Sad True Love Story
(Sprache: Englisch)
The brilliantly inventive, wildly funny and humane new novel, set in an economically and politically collapsed America, by the author of the bestselling Absurdistan.
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The brilliantly inventive, wildly funny and humane new novel, set in an economically and politically collapsed America, by the author of the bestselling Absurdistan.
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The brilliantly inventive, wildly funny and humane new novel, set in an economically and politically collapsed America, by the author of the bestselling Absurdistan.
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
- 2011, 272 Seiten, Maße: 13 x 19,8 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Granta Books
- ISBN-10: 1847082491
- ISBN-13: 9781847082497
- Erscheinungsdatum: 06.03.2015
Sprache:
Englisch
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"Gary Shteyngart's wonderful new novel, "Super Sad True Love Story," is a supersad, superfunny, superaffecting performance -- a book that not only showcases the ebullient satiric gifts...but that also uncovers his abilities to write deeply and movingly about love and loss and mortality. It's a novel that gives us a cutting comic portrait of a futuristic America, nearly ungovernable and perched on the abyss of fiscal collapse, and at the same time it is a novel that chronicles a sweetly real love affair as it blossoms from its awkward, improbable beginnings. Mr. Shteyngart spent his earliest childhood in Leningrad, then moved with his family to the United States, and "Super Sad" reflects his dual heritage, combining the dark soulfulness of Russian literature with the antic inventiveness of postmodern American writing; the tenderness of the Chekhovian tradition with the hormonal high jinks of a Judd Apatow movie...It demonstrates a new emotional bandwidth and ratifies his emergence as on
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