Gary Shteyngart - Super Sad True Love Story

Financial Times“Shteyngart seems to have lost the ability to look over the horizon...” Shteyngart is smart, certainly, and adept at conveying the horrors he has dreamed up. But cleverness without hope is like a love story without laughter: super sad indeed, and as cold as the grave we all contort ourselves to avoid...

Guardian“The satire is off the leash in the US-set Super Sad True Love Story...” Shteyngart's ventriloquism is remarkable, cleverly observed and highly amusing, but his facility turns out to be the problem; he does it so well that no one had the heart to tell him "enough with the funny voices"...

The Scotsman“A cutting, comic portrait of a futuristic America...” This novel avoids the pretensions and grandiosity of Shteyngart's last book, Absurdistan, even as it demonstrates a new emotional bandwidth and ratifies his emergence as one of his generation's most original and exhilarating writers...

The Boston Globe“A shaky performance for Shteyngart...” What Shteyngart is after is the spreading cancer of narcissism, the affliction of looking everywhere and seeing only yourself — or America. We are retarding. Shytengart’s satirical disdain, uneven though it may be, is contagious all the same...

The New York Times“Never less than stylish and witty...” For a while it seems as if a pre-post-human realist novel is trying to sneak into the satirical pages. But the sheer exhilaration of the writing in this book is itself a sort of answer to the flattened-out horrors of the world it depicts...

Los Angeles Times“An all-too-plausible dystopia...” Pity Lenny Abramov, the sad and hilarious human being at the center of this hilarious and sad novel. For my part, I find it pretty much on target: the Eunice sections aside, it is on the whole both frightening and devastatingly funny...

The Telegraph“Not yet reviewed”

Economist“Not yet reviewed”

The Independent“Not yet reviewed”

The New Yorker“Not yet reviewed”