“A slit-your-wrist satire illuminated by the author’s absurd wit…This zany Russian immigrant loops the comedy of Woody Allen’s Sleeper through the grim insights of George Orwell’s 1984 to produce a Super Sad True Love Story that exposes the moral bankruptcy of our techno-lust.” “Funny, on-target, and ultimately sad as it captures the absurdity and anxiety of navigating an increasingly out-of-control world.” “With Shteyngart’s nutty knack for tangy language, it’s as if Vladimir Nabokov rewrote 1984.” ![]() “Shteyngart makes trenchant, often hilarious, observations about a fading empire.” Shteyngart gives us his most powerful and heartfelt novel yet-a novel that performs the delightful feat of mashing up an apocalyptic satire with a genuine supersad true love story.” “A supersad, superfunny, superaffecting performance…that also uncovers his abilities to write deeply and movingly about love and loss and mortality…In recounting the story of Lenny and Eunice in his antic, supercaffeinated prose, Mr.
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