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After three acclaimed novels - The Russian Debutante's Handbook, Absurdistan, and Super Sad True Love Story - Gary Shteyngart turns to memoir in a candid, witty, deeply poignant account of his life so far.

Shteyngart shares his American immigrant experience, moving back and forth through time and memory with self-deprecating humor, moving insights, and literary bravado. The result is a resonant story of family and belonging that feels epic and intimate and distinctly his own. Provocative, hilarious, and inventive, Little Failure reveals a deeper vein of emotion in Gary Shteyngart' s prose.

Named as one of the New York Times Year’s Ten Best upon its publication, Gary Shteyngart’s Absurdistan is a biting, poignant satire of American-style democracy and the American Dream. After returning to Russia to attend his father’s funeral, 30-year-old Misha is subsequently denied a visa when he attempts to re-enter the United States.

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.

Gary Shteyngart, author of The Russian Debutante’s Handbook, creates a compelling reality in this tale about an illiterate America in the not-too-distant future. Lenny Abramov may just be penning the world’s last diary. Which is good, because while falling in love with a rather unpleasant woman and witnessing the fall of a great empire, Lenny has a lot to write about.

Best-selling author Gary Shteyngart’s exquisite fiction is met with a level of critical acclaim reserved for the very best in the field. In this startlingly provocative work, Russian immigrant Vladimir Girshkin searches for love and self-identity while interacting with a quirky set of acquaintances.

Narcissistic, hilariously self-deluded, and divorced from the real world as most of us know it, hedge-fund manager Barry Cohen oversees $2.4 billion in assets. Deeply stressed by an SEC investigation and by his three-year-old son’s diagnosis of autism, he flees New York on a Greyhound bus in search of a simpler, more romantic life with his old college sweetheart. Meanwhile, his super-smart wife, Seema - a driven first-generation American who craved the picture-perfect life that comes with wealth - has her own demons to face.

The author of Super Sad True Love Story presents his new memoir, a seriously hilarious exploration of his life so far.

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.

Der Wall-Street-Millionär Barry Cohen führt ein perfektes Leben. Doch als er erfährt, dass sein Sohn autistisch ist und dann auch noch eine Untersuchung der Börsenaufsicht gegen ihn eingeleitet wird, packt er seine geliebte Uhrensammlung in einen Rollkoffer und macht sich auf den Weg. Sein irrwitziger Plan: nach zwanzig Jahren seine College-Liebe Layla wiederzutreffen - in der Hoffnung, mit ihr das einfachere, ehrlichere Leben von damals fortzuführen.

Der Wall-Street-Millionär Barry Cohen führt ein perfektes Leben. Doch als er erfährt, dass sein Sohn autistisch ist und dann auch noch eine Untersuchung der Börsenaufsicht gegen ihn eingeleitet wird, packt er seine geliebte Uhrensammlung in einen Rollkoffer und macht sich auf den Weg. Sein irrwitziger Plan: nach zwanzig Jahren seine College-Liebe Layla wiederzutreffen – in der Hoffnung, mit ihr das einfachere, ehrlichere Leben von damals fortzuführen.