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Our Country Friends

byGary Shteyngart

Who is this book for? Readers who enjoy contemporary fiction with humor and complex character relationships.

Topics Reevaluation of valuesCelebrity presencePandemic isolationRussian-american charactersLove relationshipsMulticultural cast of charactersUpstate new york settingFriendship dynamicsBetrayalFamily relationshipsLoveFriendship
MoodHumorous, Light-hearted, Reflective
HumorFull Comedy
RomanceCentral to the Plot
Explicit scenesSuggestive Themes
New York Times bestseller, shortlisted for 2022 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction ! 'It's a true pleasure to sink into Shteyngart's expansive, benevolent storytelling' Sunday Times 'A masterpiece . . . There cannot be a more relevant novel for our moment, certainly not one with such beauty of description, depth of feeling, and, as always, humour.'-Andrew Sean Greer, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Less 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.

Language

en

Published on

01/01/2022

Format

eBook

ISBN

9781838956882

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