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Absurdistan Audio Book
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Absurdistan
Author:
Gary Shteyngart
Reader: Arte Johnson
The uproarious and poignant story of one very fat ex-Russian and one very small country. Caught in the tiny, oil-rich nation of Absurdistan when civil war breaks out, big Misha soon finds himself covered in oil, fighting for his life, falling in love, and wondering if a normal life is still possible in the 21st century. "Graphic, slapstick satire... madcap."—Publishers Weekly
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Publish Date: 08/01/2006
ISBN: 9781597771252
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Synopsis:
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Misha Vainberg, a young fat rich Russian émigré, finds himself trapped in his hated homeland, exiled from his ghetto girlfriend Rouenna and all the glorious excesses of New York City. His quest for a U.S. visa takes him to Absurdistan, a tiny former Soviet-bloc country mired in ethnic tensions, and before he knows it, a local warlord has made him the Minister of Multicultural Affairs. Meanwhile, back in New York, a lecherous professor (with a striking resemblance to the novel's author) has begun to put the moves on Rouenna. As in his explosive debut, THE RUSSIAN DEBUTANTE'S HANDBOOK, Gary Shteyngart writes with audacity and verve. Using the lazy and bombastic Misha as his mouthpiece, Shteyngart romps in the absurdity of the globalized world: the spread of rap and fast food, profiteering Halliburton-esque corporations, and the collision of old-world bigotry with the preposterous new-world disorder.
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Book Reviews:
| "Like a victorious wrestler, this novel is so immodestly vigorous, so burstingly sure of its barbaric excellence, that simply by breathing, sweating and standing upright it exalts itself....[Shteyngart's] thick, overloaded style is what happens...when socialist realism decays into black comedy. This is the prose of heroic disappointment, faintly labored at moments but fitted to the task of shoveling up mountains of cultural debris." |
| New York Times Book Review - Walter Kirn (4/30/2006) |
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| "ABSURDISTAN is undoubtedly one of this year's most interesting American books." |
| Literary Review - Matt Thorne (08/01/2007) |
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