EAN: 9781984855145

OUR COUNTRY FRIENDS - GARY SHTEYNGART KARTONIER...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • GOOD MORNING AMERICA BUZZ PICK • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR:
The New York Times Book Review  Financial Times  The Washington Post  Time  Los Angeles Times 
New York Post  Town & Country  Good Housekeeping  Kirkus Reviews Finalist for the Bollinger
Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction • Longlisted for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize • A
perfect novel for these times and all times  the single textual artifact from the pandemic era
I would place in a time capsule as a representation of all that is good and true and beautiful
about literature.”—Molly Young  The New York Times (Editors’ Choice)Eight friends  one country
house  and six months in isolation—a novel about love  friendship  family  and betrayal hailed
as a virtuoso performance” (USA Today) and an homage to Chekhov with four romances and a finale
that will break your heart” (The Washington Post)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.

Aktuelle Preise zur EAN 9781984855145

Produktinformationen zur 9781984855145