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Our Country Friends Gary Shteyngart

Our Country Friends von Gary Shteyngart

Our Country Friends Gary Shteyngart

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Zusammenfassung

Eight friends, one country house, four romances, and six months in isolation-a novel about love, friendship, family, and betrayal, a book that reads like a great Russian novel, or Chekhov on the Hudson, by a novelist The New York Times calls 'one of his generation's most original writers'.

Our Country Friends Zusammenfassung

Our Country Friends Gary Shteyngart

'A masterpiece . . . There cannot be a more relevant novel for our moment, certainly not one with such beauty of description, depth of feeling, and, as always, humour.'-Andrew Sean Greer, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Less

It's March 2020 and a calamity is unfolding. 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.

Our Country Friends Bewertungen

You can retreat from global catastrophe but your private calamities will come and find you. Gary Shteyngart's most moving novel, Chekhov and Boccaccio reimagined in America in the year of the pandemic, is a powerful fable of our broken time.

-- Salman Rushdie, Booker Prize-winning author of MIDNIGHT'S CHILDREN
Gary Shteyngart is a national treasure. He has always written with great humor and heart, but never more so than here. Be careful reading this book in public; it is as likely to make you laugh out loud as cry. -- Jonathan Safran Foer, bestselling author of EVERYTHING IS ILLUMINATED and I AM HERE
There cannot be a more relevant novel for our moment, certainly not one with such beauty of description, depth of feeling, and, as always, humor. Shteyngart has written an American comic Decameron, or, to be plain: a masterpiece. -- Andrew Sean Greer, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of LESS

Shteyngart's big-hearted drama is timely yet timeless with its penetrating and nuanced social commentary exploring identity, racism, celebrity culture, social media, and humanity. Above all, Shteyngart artfully exemplifies love in its many registers-parental, brotherly, romantic-in what is ultimately a 'super sad true love' story.

* Booklist, starred review *
The Great American Pandemic Novel only Shteyngart could write, full of hyphenated identities, killer prose, and wild vitality. * Kirkus, starred review *
Our Country Friends, the author's fifth novel, is his finest.... Our Country Friends is brilliant about so much.... Like Chekhov, whose ghost floats pleasantly through these pages, Shteyngart is a master of verbs... To read this novel is to tally a high school yearbook's worth of superlatives for Shteyngart: funniest, noisiest, sweetest, most entertaining.... Our Country Friends is a perfect novel for these times and all times, the single textual artifact from the pandemic era I would place in a time capsule as a representation of all that is good and true and beautiful about literature. I hope the extraterrestrials who exhume it will agree. * New York Times *

Über Gary Shteyngart

Gary Shteyngart was born in Leningrad in 1972 and came to the United States seven years later. His debut novel, The Russian Debutante's Handbook, won the Stephen Crane Award for First Fiction and the National Jewish Book Award for Fiction. His second novel, Absurdistan, was named one of the 10 Best Books of the Year by The New York Times Book Review. His novel Super Sad True Love Story won the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize and became one of the most iconic novels of the decade. His memoir, Little Failure, was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist and a New York Times bestseller. His most recent novel is Lake Success. His books regularly appear on best-of lists around the world and have been published in thirty countries.

Zusätzliche Informationen

GOR012929331
9781838956875
1838956875
Our Country Friends Gary Shteyngart
Gary Shteyngart
Gebraucht - Gut
Broschiert
Atlantic Books
20220127
336
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