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024 3 $a9781400061969
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050 00 $aPS3619.H79$bA63 2006
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100 1 $aShteyngart, Gary,$d1972-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2001043438
245 10 $aAbsurdistan /$cGary Shteyngart.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bRandom House,$c[2006], ©2006.
300 $axi, 333 pages ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
520 1 $a"Open Absurdistan and meet outsize Misha Vainberg, son of the 1,238th-richest man in Russia, lover of large portions of food and drink, lover and inept performer of rap music, and lover of a South Bronx Latina whom he longs to rejoin in New York City, if only the American INS will grant him a visa. But it won't, because Misha's late Beloved Papa whacked an Oklahoma businessman of some prominence. Misha is paying the price of exile from his adopted American homeland. He's stuck in Russia, dreaming of his beloved Rouenna and the Oz of NYC." "Salvation may lie in the tiny, oil-rich nation of Absurdistan, where a crooked consular officer will sell Misha a Belgian passport. But after a civil war breaks out between two competing ethnic groups and a local warlord installs hapless Misha as Minister of Multicultural Affairs, our hero soon finds himself covered in oil, fighting for his life, falling in love, and trying to figure out if a normal life is still possible in the twenty-first century." "Populated by curvaceous brown-eyed beauties, circumcision-happy Hasidic Jews, a loyal manservant who never stops serving, and scheming oil execs from a certain American company whose name rhymes with Malliburton, Absurdistan is a strange, oddly true-to-life look at how we live now, from a writer who should know."--BOOK JACKET.
655 7 $aHumorous fiction.$2gsafd
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0630/2005054308-b.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0630/2005054308-d.html
852 00 $bglx$hPS3619.H79$iA63 2006