Гари Штейнгарт – лучшие книги

Новый роман Гари Штейнгарта, автора нашумевших «Приключений русского дебютанта» и «Абсурдистана». Ленни Абрамов, герой «Супергрустной истории настоящей любви», родился не в том месте и не в то время. Его трогательная привычка вести дневник, которому он доверяет самые сокровенные мысли, и не менее трогательная влюбленность в кореянку Юнис Пак были бы уместны несколько веков назад. Впрочем, таким людям, как Ленни, нелегко в любые времена.
В «Супергрустной истории» читатель найдет сатиру и романтику, глубокий психологизм и апокалиптические мотивы. По мнению Publishers Weekly, на сегодняшний день это лучший роман Штейнгарта.

Книга американского писателя Гари Штейнгарта «Абсурдистан» — роман-сатира об иммигрантах и постсоветских реалиях. Главный герой, Михаил Вайнберг, американец русского происхождения, приезжает к отцу в Россию, а в результате оказывается в одной из бывших советских республик, всеми силами пытаясь вернуться обратно в Америку.

Когда Владимиру Гиршкину было двенадцать лет, родители увезли его из Ленинграда в Нью-Йорк. И вот ему уже двадцать пять, а зрелость все не наступает, и все так же непонятно, кто он: русский, американец или еврей. Так бы и варился Володя в собственном соку, если бы не объявился в его жизни русский старик по прозвищу Вентиляторный. И с этой минуты сонная жизнь Владимира Гиршкина понеслась стремительно и неуправляемо. Как щепку в море, его швыряет от нью-йоркской интеллектуальной элиты к каталонской наркомафии, а затем в крепкие объятия русских братков, обосновавшихся в восточноевропейском Париже 90-х, прекрасном городе Праве.
Экзистенциальные приключения бедного русского эмигранта в Америке и Европе увлекают не меньше, чем стиль Гари Штейнгарта, в котором отчетливо сквозит традиция классической русской литературы. «Приключения русского дебютанта» — это и лихой авантюрный роман, и серьезный взгляд на то, что значит быть чужаком в Америке и что значит быть американцем, и история…

Gary Shteyngart's loving but mismatched parents dreamed that he would become a lawyer, or at least an accountant, something their distracted son was simply not cut out to do. Fusing English and Russian, his mother created the term Failurchka-'Little Failure'-which she applied to her son. With love. Mostly.

A candid and deeply poignant story of a Soviet family's trials and tribulations, and of their escape in 1979 to the consumerist promised land of the USA, Little Failure is also an exceptionally funny account of the author's transformation from asthmatic toddler in Leningrad to 40-something Manhattanite with a receding hairline and a memoir to write.

In June 2010, the editors of The New Yorker announced to widespread media coverage their selection of "20 Under 40"―the young fiction writers who are, or will be, central to their generation. The magazine published twenty stories by this stellar group of writers over the course of the summer. They are now collected for the first time in one volume.

The range of voices is extraordinary. There is the lyrical realism of Nell Freudenberger, Philipp Meyer, C. E. Morgan, and Salvatore Scibona; the satirical comedy of Joshua Ferris and Gary Shteyngart; and the genre-bending tales of Jonathan Safran Foer, Nicole Krauss, and Téa Obreht. David Bezmozgis and Dinaw Mengestu offer clear eyed portraits of immigration and identity; Sarah Shun-lien Bynum, ZZ Packer, and Wells Tower offer voice-driven, idiosyncratic narratives. Then there are the haunting sociopolitical stories of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Daniel Alarcón, and Yiyun Li, and the metaphysical fantasies of Chris Adrian, Rivka Galchen, and Karen Russell.

Each of these writers reminds us why we read. And each is aiming for greatness: fighting to get and to hold our attention in a culture that is flooded with words, sounds, and pictures; fighting to surprise, to entertain, to teach, and to move not only us but generations of readers to come. A landmark collection, 20 Under 40 stands as a testament to the vitality of fiction today.

Birdsong / Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie --
The warm fuzzies / Chris Adrian --
Second Lives / Daniel Alarcón --
The train of their departure / David Bezmozgis --
The Erlking / Sarah Shun-lien Bynum --
The pilot / Joshua Ferris --
Here we aren't, so quickly / Jonathan Safran Foer --
An arranged marriage / Nell Freudenberger --
The entire northern side was covered with fire / Rivka Galchen --
The young painters / Nicole Krauss --
The science of flight / Yiyun Li --
An honest exit / Dinaw Mengestu --
What you do out here, when you're alone / Philipp Meyer --
Twins / C.E. Morgan --
Blue water djinn / Téa Obreht --
Dayward / ZZ Packer --
The dredgeman's revelation / Karen Russell --
The kid / Salvatore Scibona --
Lenny hearts Eunice / Gary Shteyngart --
The landlord / Wells Tower

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; a Southern flamethrower of an essayist; and a movie star, the Actor, whose arrival upsets the equilibrium of this chosen family. Both elegiac and very, very funny, Our Country Friends is the most ambitious book yet by the author of the beloved bestseller Super Sad True Love Story.

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. 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; a Southern flamethrower of an essayist; and a movie star, the Actor, whose arrival upsets the equilibrium of this chosen family. Both elegiac and very, very funny, Our Country Friends is the most ambitious book yet by the author of the beloved bestseller Super Sad True Love Story.

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. How these two flawed characters navigate the Shteyngartian chaos of their own making is at the heart of this piercing exploration of the 0.1 Percent, a poignant tale of familial longing and an unsentimental ode to what really makes America great.

A collection of the year's best essays, selected by award-winning writer Alexander Chee.

Alexander Chee, a "master artist" (Maris Kreizman, host of The Maris Review) of the personal essay, selects twenty essays out of thousands that represent the best examples of the form published the previous year.