Absurdistan

"Like a victorious wrestler, this novel is so immodestly vigorous, so burstingly sure of its barbaric excellence, that simply by breathing, sweating and standing upright it exalts itself....[Shteyngart's] thick, overloaded style is what happens...when socialist realism decays into black comedy. This is the prose of heroic disappointment, faintly labored at moments but fitted to the task of shoveling up mountains of cultural debris."Shteyngart, Gary is the author of 'Absurdistan ', published 2007 under ISBN 9781597224390 and ISBN 1597224391.