Bücher von Gary Shteyngart

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • GOOD MORNING AMERICA BUZZ PICK • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, Financial Times, The Washington Post, Time, Los Angeles Times, New York Post, Town & Country, Good Housekeeping, Kirkus ReviewsFinalist for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction • Longlisted for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize • “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.”—Molly Young, The New York Times (Editors’ Choice)Eight friends, one country house, and six months in isolation—a novel about love, friendship, family, and betrayal hailed as a “virtuoso performance” (USA Today) and “an homage to Chekhov with four romances and a finale that will break your heart” (The Washington Post)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.

Ein wahnwitziger Roadtrip durch das zerrissene AmerikaBarry Cohen, Sohn eines jüdischen Poolreinigers aus der Bronx, lebt den amerikanischen Traum mit großem Haus und bildschöner Ehefrau. Doch dann kommt der Tag, an dem er begreift, dass sein Sohn niemals in seine Fußstapfen treten wird. Sein ganzer Lebensplan steht auf dem Kopf und gleichzeitig ist auch noch die Börsenaufsicht hinter ihm her. Ohne nachzudenken flieht Barry in einem Greyhound-Bus aus New York - auf der Suche nach seiner Collegeliebe Layla, die er seit zwanzig Jahren nicht mehr gesehen hat. Kann er nach so langer Zeit mit ihr das Leben von damals wieder aufnehmen?

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER *; A deliciously dark tale of America's dysfunctional coming yearsand the timeless and tender feelings that just might bring us back from the brink.NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times *; The Washington Post *; The Boston Globe *; San Francisco Chronicle *; The Seattle Times *; O: The Oprah Magazine *; Maureen Corrigan, NPR *; Salon *; Slate *; Minneapolis Star Tribune *; St. Louis Post-Dispatch *; The Kansas City Star *; Charlotte Observer *; The Globe and Mail *; Vancouver Sun *; Montreal Gazette *; Kirkus ReviewsIn 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?