Гари Штейнгарт — новинки

In the rolling hills of upstate New York, a group of friends and friends-of-friends gathers in a country house to wait out the pandemic. Over the next six months, new friendships and romances will take hold, while old betrayals will emerge, forcing each character to reevaluate whom they love and what matters most. The unlikely cast of characters includes a Russian-born novelist; his Russian-born psychiatrist wife; their precocious child obsessed with K-pop; a struggling Indian American writer; a wildly successful Korean American app developer; a global dandy with three passports; a Southern flamethrower of an essayist; and a movie star, the Actor, whose arrival upsets the equilibrium of this chosen family. Both elegiac and very, very funny, Our Country Friends is the most ambitious book yet by the author of the beloved bestseller Super Sad True Love Story.

A riotously satirical road trip through modern America from the brilliant author of Super Sad True Love Story and Absurdistan

Barry Cohen, master of the universe, has just had a very public meltdown involving a dinner party, an insider trading investigation and a $30,000 bottle of Japanese whisky. So he flees New York City, leaving behind his beautiful young wife and son, but remembering to bring his six favourite designer watches. Zig-zagging south through Trump's America on a Greyhound Bus pilgrimmage he is singularly unprepared for, Barry heads to Texas - to find his old college girlfriend and, with her, a shot at a second chance...

Lake Success marries the trademark Shteyngart wit with an astonishing emotional resonance, capturing the vivid eccentricity and contradictions of America right now while speaking to the universal human experience of love, belonging, and the pursuit of happiness.

*Over 50 Best of 2018 listings worldwide*
'Gary Shteyngart hears America perfectly; its fatuity, its poignant lament, its boisterous self-loathing. Its heartbeat. Reading him sometimes makes me want to scream - with recognition and with pure hilarity' - Richard Ford
'A trip through the American wasteland - from the people who have too little, to the people who have too much. Incredibly smart, incredibly funny, incredibly tragic, and therefore incredibly human, thi

Narcissistic, hilariously self-deluded, and divorced from the real world as most of us know it, hedge-fund manager Barry Cohen oversees $2.4 billion in assets. Deeply stressed by an SEC investigation and by his three-year-old son’s diagnosis of autism, he flees New York on a Greyhound bus in search of a simpler, more romantic life with his old college sweetheart. Meanwhile, his super-smart wife, Seema—a driven first-generation American who craved the picture-perfect life that comes with wealth—has her own demons to face. How these two flawed characters navigate the Shteyngartian chaos of their own making is at the heart of this piercing exploration of the 0.1 Percent, a poignant tale of familial longing and an unsentimental ode to what really makes America great.

Новый роман Гари Штейнгарта, автора нашумевших «Приключений русского дебютанта» и «Абсурдистана». Ленни Абрамов, герой «Супергрустной истории настоящей любви», родился не в том месте и не в то время. Его трогательная привычка вести дневник, которому он доверяет самые сокровенные мысли, и не менее трогательная влюбленность в кореянку Юнис Пак были бы уместны несколько веков назад. Впрочем, таким людям, как Ленни, нелегко в любые времена.
В «Супергрустной истории» читатель найдет сатиру и романтику, глубокий психологизм и апокалиптические мотивы. По мнению Publishers Weekly, на сегодняшний день это лучший роман Штейнгарта.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST

NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY MICHIKO KAKUTANI, THE NEW YORK TIMES • NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY TIME

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY MORE THAN 45 PUBLICATIONS, INCLUDING
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Little Failure is the all too true story of an immigrant family betting its future on America, as told by a lifelong misfit who finally finds a place for himself in the world through books and words. In 1979, a little boy dragging a ginormous fur hat and an overcoat made from the skin of some Soviet woodland creature steps off the plane at New York’s JFK International Airport and into his new American life. His troubles are just beginning. For the former Igor Shteyngart, coming to the United States from the Soviet Union is like stumbling off a monochromatic cliff and landing in a pool of Technicolor. Careening between his Soviet home life and his American aspirations, he finds himself living in two contradictory worlds, wishing for a real home in one. He becomes so strange to his parents that his mother stops bickering with his father long enough to coin the phrase failurchka—“little failure”—which she applies to her once-promising son. With affection. Mostly. From the terrors of Hebrew School to a crash course in first love to a return visit to the homeland that is no longer home, Gary Shteyngart has crafted a ruthlessly brave and funny memoir of searching for every kind of love—family, romantic, and of the self.

Gary Shteyngart's loving but mismatched parents dreamed that he would become a lawyer, or at least an accountant, something their distracted son was simply not cut out to do. Fusing English and Russian, his mother created the term Failurchka-'Little Failure'-which she applied to her son. With love. Mostly.

A candid and deeply poignant story of a Soviet family's trials and tribulations, and of their escape in 1979 to the consumerist promised land of the USA, Little Failure is also an exceptionally funny account of the author's transformation from asthmatic toddler in Leningrad to 40-something Manhattanite with a receding hairline and a memoir to write.

Новый роман Гари Штейнгарта, автора нашумевших "Приключений русского дебютанта" и "Абсурдистана". Ленни Абрамов, герой "Супергрустной истории настоящей любви", родился не в том месте и не в то время. Его трогательная привычка вести дневник, которому он доверяет самые сокровенные мысли, и не менее трогательная влюбленность в кореянку Юнис Пак были бы уместны несколько веков назад. Впрочем, таким людям, как Ленни, нелегко в любые времена.
В "Супергрустной истории" читатель найдет сатиру и романтику, глубокий психологизм и апокалиптические мотивы. По мнению Publishers Weekly, на сегодняшний день это лучший роман Штейнгарта.

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?

Книга американского писателя Гари Штейнгарта «Абсурдистан» — роман-сатира об иммигрантах и постсоветских реалиях. Главный герой, Михаил Вайнберг, американец русского происхождения, приезжает к отцу в Россию, а в результате оказывается в одной из бывших советских республик, всеми силами пытаясь вернуться обратно в Америку.

Когда Владимиру Гиршкину было двенадцать лет, родители увезли его из Ленинграда в Нью-Йорк. И вот ему уже двадцать пять, а зрелость все не наступает, и все так же непонятно, кто он: русский, американец или еврей. Так бы и варился Володя в собственном соку, если бы не объявился в его жизни русский старик по прозвищу Вентиляторный. И с этой минуты сонная жизнь Владимира Гиршкина понеслась стремительно и неуправляемо. Как щепку в море, его швыряет от нью-йоркской интеллектуальной элиты к каталонской наркомафии, а затем в крепкие объятия русских братков, обосновавшихся в восточноевропейском Париже 90-х, прекрасном городе Праве.
Экзистенциальные приключения бедного русского эмигранта в Америке и Европе увлекают не меньше, чем стиль Гари Штейнгарта, в котором отчетливо сквозит традиция классической русской литературы. «Приключения русского дебютанта» — это и лихой авантюрный роман, и серьезный взгляд на то, что значит быть чужаком в Америке и что значит быть американцем, и история…

A visionary novel from the author of Super Sad True Love Story and Little Failure.

The Russian Debutante's Handbook introduces Vladimir Girshkin, one of the most original and unlikely heroes of recent times. The twenty-five-year-old unhappy lover to a fat dungeon mistress, affectionately nicknamed "Little Failure" by his high-achieving mother, Vladimir toils his days away as a lowly clerk at the bureaucratic Emma Lazarus Immigrant Absorption Society. When a wealthy but psychotic old Russian war hero appears, Vladimir embarks on an adventure of unrelenting lunacy that takes us from New York's Lower East Side to the hip frontier wilderness of Prava--the Eastern European Paris of the nineties. With the help of a murderous but fun-loving Russian mafioso, Vladimir infiltrates the Prava expat community and launches a scheme as ridiculous as it is brilliant.

Bursting with wit, humor, and rare insight, The Russian Debutante's Handbook is both a highly imaginative romp and a serious exploration of what it means to be an immigrant in America.