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Most Popular Books by Gary ShteyngartGary Shteyngart is the author of Little Failure (2014), Our Country Friends (2022), Super Sad True Love Story (2011), Lake Success (2019), The Russian Debutante's Handbook (2003).
release date: Jan 07, 2014
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 The New York Times Book Review • The Washington Post • NPR • The New Yorker • San Francisco Chronicle • The Economist • The Atlantic • Newsday • Salon • St. Louis Post-Dispatch • The Guardian • Esquire (UK) • GQ (UK) After three acclaimed novels, Gary Shteyngart turns to memoir in a candid, witty, deeply poignant account of his life so far. Shteyngart shares his American immigrant experience, moving back and forth through time and memory with self-deprecating humor, moving insights, and literary bravado. The result is a resonant story of family and belonging that feels epic and intimate and distinctly his own. Born Igor Shteyngart in Leningrad during the twilight of the Soviet Union, the curious, diminutive, asthmatic boy grew up with a persistent sense of yearning—for food, for acceptance, for words—desires that would follow him into adulthood. At five, Igor wrote his first novel, Lenin and His Magical Goose, and his grandmother paid him a slice of cheese for every page. In the late 1970s, world events changed Igor’s life. Jimmy Carter and Leonid Brezhnev made a deal: exchange grain for the safe passage of Soviet Jews to America—a country Igor viewed as the enemy. Along the way, Igor became Gary so that he would suffer one or two fewer beatings from other kids. Coming to the United States from the Soviet Union was equivalent to stumbling off a monochromatic cliff and landing in a pool of pure Technicolor. Shteyngart’s loving but mismatched parents dreamed that he would become a lawyer or at least a “conscientious toiler” on Wall Street, 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. As a result, Shteyngart operated on a theory that he would fail at everything he tried. At being a writer, at being a boyfriend, and, most important, at being a worthwhile human being. Swinging between a Soviet home life and American aspirations, Shteyngart found himself living in two contradictory worlds, all the while wishing that he could find a real home in one. And somebody to love him. And somebody to lend him sixty-nine cents for a McDonald’s hamburger. Provocative, hilarious, and inventive, Little Failure reveals a deeper vein of emotion in Gary Shteyngart’s prose. It is a memoir of an immigrant family coming to America, as told by a lifelong misfit who forged from his imagination an essential literary voice and, against all odds, a place in the world. Praise for Little Failure “Hilarious and moving . . . The army of readers who love Gary Shteyngart is about to get bigger.”—The New York Times Book Review “A memoir for the ages . . . brilliant and unflinching.”—Mary Karr “Dazzling . . . a rich, nuanced memoir . . . It’s an immigrant story, a coming-of-age story, a becoming-a-writer story, and a becoming-a-mensch story, and in all these ways it is, unambivalently, a success.”—Meg Wolitzer, NPR “Literary gold . . . bruisingly funny.”—Vogue “A giant success.”—Entertainment Weekly
release date: Sep 06, 2022
Super Sad True Love Story
release date: May 03, 2011
release date: Jun 04, 2019
The Russian Debutante's Handbook
release date: Apr 29, 2003
release date: Apr 03, 2007
release date: Mar 03, 2022
Uno de los mejores libros del año según TheNew York Times Book Review , San Francisco Chronicle , NPR, The Washington Post , O: The Oprah Magazine , Library Journal , KirkusReviews y Financial Times , entre otros, elogiado unánimemente por la crítica. «Gary Shteyngart capta América a la perfección. [...] Cuando lo leo a veces me entran ganas de gritar: de admiración y de pura risa.» Richard Ford Narcisista, vulgar, millonario, infantil, acomplejado, soberbio, displicente, inútil, infatuado, estereotípico, incapaz, irresponsable: Barry Cohen está sobradamente cualificado para ser la desastrosa encarnación del sueño americano. Cuando, acosado por los problemasempresariales, le informan de que a su hijo le han diagnosticado autismo, decide dejarlo todo, abandonar a su familia y embarcarse en una odisea caótica e hilarante en la que recorrerá Estados Unidos en autobús buscando un amor ideal, irreal y perdido hace años. Este viaje de autoconocimiento capaz de arrasar con todo, en el que Barry irá entablando estrambóticas relaciones con quien sale a su paso, es el fiel reflejo de la huida hacia delante de una América que ha perdido el control de sí misma. Este es, a fin de cuentas, el presente de un país que quiere ser grande otra vez, quizá monstruosamente grande. Mediante la exageración, la deformación y un sarcasmo irrefrenable, Shteyngart pone en la diana el espíritu de la época en una novela corrosiva, escandalosa y tremendamente divertida. La crítica ha dicho: «Una de esas novelas (gordas) que te atrapan y no te sueltan desde la primera página, en toda la tradición de la épica estadounidense contemporánea desde Dinero de Martin Amis hasta La hoguera de las vanidades de Tom Wolfe. [...] Un retrato extraordinario de "la otra" América profunda». Silvia Nieto, El Mundo «Apoyada en el punto de vista y el humor ácido, la mirada desde fuera y desde dentroa la vez, la franqueza que solo podemos encontrar a través de la ironía y el sarcasmo, En Lake Success es una novela tan divertida como profunda. Situada en el punto álgido del Make America Great Again, con Donald Trump ascendiendo los últimos peldaños en su camino hacia la Casa Blanca, Gary Shteyngartaporta muchísimas más claves sobre la fanatización del país». Roberto Moro, Libros y Literatura «Esta novela es tan ácida, gamberra e intensa a la hora de rastrear las disonancias y los engaños, tanto individuales como colectivos, que hace que este extraño país parezca todavía más extraño». The New York Times «Una ambiciosa novela que es un análisis del "estado de la nación" [...]. Afilada, oportuna y real». The Guardian «Escandalosamente divertida». The Boston Globe «Una novela en la que comedia y patetismo están exquisitamente equilibrados». The Washington Post «Tan bueno como todo lo que hemos leído de este autor: inteligente, relevante, cargado de bondad de un modo fundamental, descacharrante (por supuesto) y con un gran final.» Kirkus «Shteyngart nos trae una comedia llena de gags y tan buena como siempre, pero se adentra en un terreno nuevo y desarrolla el pathos de sus personajes como si fuera un experto [...]. Esta es una novela con estilo y de gran corazón Publishers Weekly
release date: Jun 28, 2002
release date: Oct 27, 2017
An Immigrant to a Continent of Pain
release date: Jan 01, 2024
Willkommen in Lake Success
release date: Apr 15, 2019
release date: Jun 14, 2023
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