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Below are gary shteyngarts favorite books, available to purchase as a set or individually. Gary shteyngart was born in leningrad and immigrated to the united states when he was seven years old. Gary shteyngart is the new york times bestselling author of the memoir little failure a national book critics circle award finalist and the novels super sad true love story winner of the bollinger everyman wodehouse prize, absurdistan, and the. Much of his work is satirical and relies on the invention of elaborately fictitious yet somehow familiar places and times. Gary shteyngart, the russian immigrant whose debut novel, the russian debutantes handbook, won the stephen crane award for first fiction and a national jewish book award, sparkles in absurdistan. No one is more capable of dealing with the transition from the hell of socialism to the hell of capitalism in eastern europe than shteyngart, the greatgreat grandson of one nikolai gogol and the funniest foreigner alive. His first novel, the russian debutantes handbook lampooned in absurdistan as shteynfarbs the russian arrivistes handjob, was a satire about a russian immigrant to the us launching a. Misha vainberg is a hero for the new century, a glimmer of humanity in a world of dashed hopes. Gary shteyngart is a watch geek 03142017 03142017 readingbyeugene 1 comment i really enjoyed gary shteyngarts latest piece in the new yorker, in which he describes how he became fascinated with mechanical watches over the last sixteen months. A conversation with gary shteyngart shteyngart was born in leningrad, ussr, in 1972 and emigrated with his family to queens, new york, at the age of seven. Jun 07, 2010 gary shteyngart was featured in the new yorker s 20 under 40 fiction issue. Misha is obese, a secular jew, and he is the son of the 1,238th richest man in russia.
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