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Laddar... Absurdistan: A Novel (utgåvan 2006)av Gary Shteyngart
VerksinformationAbsurdistan av Gary Shteyngart ![]()
Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. ![]() ![]() The runner-up of the 2007 Morning News Tournament of Books (https://themorningnews.org/tob/2007/) In my opinion, 'Absurdistan' was ROBBED from winning against the drab McCarthy confusion that is 'The Road'. I would have chosen Absurdistan! Could this match-up have been any different? I'm finding I like books about unlikable underdogs more than other readers seem to. Others just can't hang with Zebra from 'Call Me Zebra'. Misha here isn't quite unlikable but he would sometimes be a bit MUCH for others. Always talking about his squishy hands. Sometimes plotless, but I love a writer who is in love with words this much and will forgive such a plot, but I guess that is the norm for absurdist fiction. The "pizza resistance" mention was the pizza resistance of this entire book!!! I won't say more, as you'll either love this book or you won't. This reminds me of so many, though none can have that Shteyngart sparkle: Call Me Zebra - Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole Home Land - Sam Lipsyte The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao - Junot Diaz Wise Blood - Flannery O'Connor
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. In the end Misha gives new meaning to that archetype of Russian literature — the "superfluous man" — while Mr. Shteyngart's novel manages to seem equally beside the point. PriserPrestigefyllda urvalUppmärksammade listor
"With the enormous success of the critically acclaimed The Russian debutante's handbook, Gary Shteyngart established himself as one of the most talented writers of his generation. Open Absurdistan and meet our hero, the outsize Misha Vainberg, son of the 1,238th-richest man in Russia, lover of large portions of food and drink, lover and inept performer of rap music, and lover of a South Bronx Latina whom he longs to rejoin in New York City, if only the American INS will grant him a visa. It won't, because Misha's late beloved Papa whacked an Oklahoma businessman of some prominence; now Misha is paying the price of exile from his adopted American homeland. He's stuck in Russia, dreaming of his beloved Rouenna and the Oz of NYC. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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