Gary Shteyngart Pořadí knih (chronologicky)

"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'

A candid and poignant story of a Soviet family's trials and tribulations, and of their escape in 1979 to the consumerist promised land of the USA.

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.

„Vítejte ve Spojených státech nové éry! Neodkládejte äpärät! Hlídejte si kredit! A hlavně se nedívejte členům Národní gardy do očí!“ Lenny Abramov pracuje ve firmě, které nabízí lékařsky prověřenou nesmrtelnost, a při honu na bohaté evropské zákazníky se seznámí s mladou Koreo-Američankou Eunice. Zatímco se jejich vztah úspěšně vyvíjí, Amerika se propadá do finančního i politického chaosu...

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.

Pětadvacetiletý ruský Žid Vladimír Girškin přežívá jako řadový úředník v newyorské neziskové organizaci, která napomáhá asimilaci přistěhovalců. Za přítelkyni má přetloustlou lítostivou Američanku a podle matky si rozhodně nebuduje kariéru, která by odpovídala jeho kvalitám. Jednoho dne ho však v kanceláři navštíví podivný pan Rybakov, „válečný hrdina a psychotik“, a výměnou za americké občanství mu slíbí lepší život kdesi ve východní Evropě. A tak se Vladimír ocitne ve východoevropské divočině nedlouho po změně režimu. V imaginární Pravě, „Paříži devadesátých let“, jejíž krásu kazí jen stín obrovské nohy Stalinovy sochy, nenápadný Vladimír zazáří. Rozmnoží řady ruské mafie, pronikne do komunity mladých Američanů a začne je okrádat prostřednictvím pyramidového systému geniálního svou jednoduchostí. Ale nic není, jak by se na první pohled mohlo zdát... Příručka ruského debutanta je bláznivou fraškou, karikaturou míst, doby a lidských charakterů, ale i vážným pojednáním o tom, co znamená pocházet ze státu, který se rozpadl, jaké to je být rozerván mezi dvěma kulturami, jaké to je být přistěhovalcem.