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Gary Shteyngart
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Absurdistan
Автор: Gary Shteyngart Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2007 Страниц: 352 Дата загрузки: 24 сентября 20122010-09-17
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From the critically acclaimed, bestselling author of «The Russian Debutante's Handbook» comes the uproarious and poignant story of one very fat man and one very small country.
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Russian Debutante's Handbook
Автор: Gary Shteyngart Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 2008 Страниц: 496 Дата загрузки: 15 июля 20092012-03-29
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The Russian Debutante's Handbook takes us from New York City's Lower East Side to the hip frontier wilderness of Prava—the Eastern European Paris of the '90s—whose grand and glorious beauty is marred only by the shadow of the looming statue of Stalin's foot. There, with the encouragement of the Groundhog, a murderous (but fun-loving) Russian mafioso, Vladimir infiltrates the American ex-pat community with the hope of defrauding his young middle-class compatriots by launching a pyramid scheme that's as stupid as it is brilliant. Things go swimmingly at first, but nothing is quite as it seems in Prava, and Vladimir learns that in order to reinvent himself, he must first discover who he really is.
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Super Sad True Love Story
Автор: Gary Shteyngart Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2010 Страниц: 334 Дата загрузки: 09 февраля 20122011-06-25
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New York, Summer, Very near future, Economic collapse, tanks in the streets, riots in Central Park, defeat in Venezuela, books are quaint artefacts, what's left of the indebted United States is about to be parcelled out to the rising nations of Finance-London and China-Worldwide, and what's left of interpersonal relations can be summarized by a couple of flashing statistics on attractiveness and wealth. But Lenny Abramov is too in love to notice any of it. The son of working-class Russian immigrants, a bumbling minor functionary in a company that just may hold the secret to eternal life, and the reluctant star of a show called «101 People We Need To Feel Sorry For», he has fallen way too hard for the imperious Eunice Park, a blistering, beautiful Korean-American, a seductive shopper and brilliant money-spender who still knows how to speak in sentences, and a true child of her times. As the country around them explodes into a million glittering pieces, the two will discover whether love is still possible in a world where words have lost their meaning, and where every touch, embrace and kiss could be mistaken for a commodity.
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