Gary Shteyngart

Gary Shteyngart is the New York Times bestselling author of the memoir Little Failure (a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist) and the novels Super Sad True Love Story (winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize), Lake Success, Absurdistan, and The Russian Debutante’s Handbook (winner of the Stephen Crane Award for First Fiction and the National Jewish Book Award for Fiction). His books regularly appear on best-of lists around the world and have been published in 30 countries. His latest novel, Our Country Friends, was an instant New York Times bestseller and was named one of the best books of the year by The New York Times, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, TIME, Kirkus Reviews, and others.

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