Gary Shteyngart Ordine dei libri (cronologico)

"The Bradford-Shmulkin family is falling apart. A very modern blend of Russian, Jewish, Korean, and New England WASP, they love one another deeply but the pressures of life in an unstable America are fraying their bonds. There's Daddy, a struggling, cash-thirsty editor whose Russian heritage gives him a surprising new currency in the upside-down world of twenty-first-century geopolitics; his wife, Anne Mom, a progressive, underfunded blue blood from Boston who's barely holding the household together; their son, Dylan, whose blond hair and Mayflower lineage provide him pride of place in the newly forming American political order; and, above all, the young Vera, half-Jewish, half-Korean, and wholly original. Observant, sensitive, and always writing down new vocabulary words, Vera wants only three things in life: to make a friend at school; Daddy and Anne Mom to stay together; and to meet her birth mother, Mom Mom, who will at last tell Vera the secret of who she really is and how to ensure love's survival in this great, mad, imploding world"--

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'.

An unforgettable road trip through an America that's ominously divided, wildly diverse, and weirdly familiar. Gary Shteyngart writes with brutal honesty, virtuoso wit, and stubborn compassion for his deeply flawed but still somehow lovable characters Tom Perrotta, bestselling author of 'The Leftovers'

Igor, un ragazzo asmatico a Leningrado, cresce con desideri di cibo, approvazione e parole. A cinque anni, ispirato da "Il meraviglioso viaggio di Nils Holgersson con le oche selvatiche", scrive il suo primo romanzo, "Le meravigliose oche selvatiche di Lenin", e riceve dalla nonna formaggio per ogni pagina. Per superare la sua paura delle altezze, il padre porta una parete di arrampicata in salotto e, nonostante il capogiro, Igor sogna di diventare cosmonauta. Nel 1979, la famiglia ebrea emigra in America, e Igor, che ora si fa chiamare Gary, scopre con terrore che stanno viaggiando "verso il nemico". A New York trova la sua prima compagna di giochi, una ragazza con un occhio mancante, e realizza: "Io sono un immigrato, e lei ha solo un occhio, quindi siamo uguali." La storia di un ragazzo che i suoi genitori chiamano affettuosamente "piccolo fallimento" è ricca di umanità ed emozioni, piena di umorismo, nonostante il cupo passato sotto Hitler e Stalin. Questa toccante e comica storia d'infanzia è avvincente e magistrale, e poiché è la storia personale di Gary Shteyngart, è anche vera.

With the help of guest editor Adam Thirlwell (author of Kapow!, Visual Editions), Issue 42 is a monumental experiment in translated literature—twelve stories taken through six translators apiece, weaving into English and then back out again, gaining new twists and textures each time, just as you'd expect a Kierkegaard story brought into English by Clancy Martin and then sent into Dutch by Cees Nooteboom before being made into English again by J. M. Coetzee to do. With original texts by Kafka and Kharms and Kenji Miyazawa, and translations by Lydia Davis and David Mitchell and Zadie Smith (along with others by John Banville and Tom McCarthy and Javier Marías, and even more by Shteyngart and Eugenides and A. S. Byatt), this will be an issue unlike anything you've seen before—altered, echoing narratives in the hands of the finest writers of our time, brought to you in a book that looks like nothing else we’ve ever done.

The brilliantly inventive, wildly funny and humane new novel, set in an economically and politically collapsed America, by the author of the bestselling Absurdistan.

From Junot Díaz, Lynda Barry, Gary Shteyngart, and Kate Christensen to popular up-and-comers like Dan Kennedy, Wendy McClure, and Brock Clarke, Love Is a Four-Letter Word is a dead-on contemporary collection of true stories of seduction, heartbreak, and regret. Fearlessly revealing their shattered hearts and crushed egos; their indiscretions and indignities; their delusions, desperation, and disappointments, these talented writers capture the dark side of love in prose ranging from comic to poetic, poignant to cringe-inducing. Also featuring three cartoon/ graphic essays as a sixteen-page color insert, this anthology is perfect for anyone who's ever loved and lost.

A hilarious and poignant satire of post-Soviet life from one of America's most outstanding young novelists.

Russian immigrant Vladimir Girshkin finds himself returning to the Russian city of Prave where he becomes involved in a pyramid scheme to defraud his friends in the American ex-pat community