Description: The author shares his American immigrant experience, moving back and forth through time and memory with self-deprecating humor, moving insights, and literary bravado. The result is a resonant story of family and belonging that feels epic and intimate and distinctly his own.Born Igor Shteyngart in Leningrad during the twilight of the Soviet Union, the curious, diminutive, asthmatic boy grew up with a persistent sense of yearning for food, for acceptance, for words desires that would follow him into adulthood. At five, Igor wrote his first novel and his grandmother paid him a slice of cheese for every page.In the late 1970s, world events changed Igor's life. Jimmy Carter and Leonid Brezhnev made a deal: exchange grain for the safe passage of Soviet Jews to America a country Igor viewed as the enemy. Along the way, Igor became Gary so that he would suffer one or two fewer beatings from other kids. Coming to the United States from the Soviet Union was equivalent to stumbling off a monochromatic cliff and landing in a pool of pure Technicolor.
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Subjects: Biographies & True Stories
Format: Hardcover
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Topic: Memoir
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Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
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Language: English
Publication Year: 2014
Book Title: little failure
Intended Audience: Adults, Young Adults
Author: gary shteyngart
Original Language: English
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Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Publisher: Penguin Books
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Genre: Biographies & True Stories
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