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Vladimir Girshkin, a likeable Russian immigrant, searches for love, a decent job, and a credible self-identity in Gary Shteyngart's debut novel, The Russian Debutante's Handbook. With a doctor-father of questionable ethics and a manic, banker mother, Vladimir avoids his suburban parents and their desire that he pursue the almighty dollar as proof of success. Vladimir gets by as an immigration clerk, eking out a living in a cruddy New York City apartment while accumulating an array of quirky acquaintances, from a wealthy but disheveled old man (who claims his electric fan speaks to him) desperate for citizenship to Challa, a portly S/M queen. As a love interest, Challa is replaced by Francesca, a graduate student whose friends welcome Vladimir for the status he brings their bohemian clique, and whose parents encourage them to shack up (she lives at home) as visible proof she can maintain a steady relationship.
The Russian Debutante's Handbook is a quirky amalgam of dead-on American absurdities, albeit with somewhat stereotypical characters. While Vladimir flounders with how to improve his state, he becomes an expatriate in a trendy European city, becomes somewhat of a mobster himself, and generally has a good time. While many of the central characters remain elusively thin, Vladimir is a delight, and Shteyngart's wit is merciless: Russian women wear "wedding cakes of blond hair" and graduate students lounge in a bar "as if waiting for funding to appear." Reminiscent of Gogol and other Russian satirists, The Russian Debutante's Handbook is a genuine, sublime social commentary. --Michael Ferch -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.
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In 1993, communism is just a memory to 25-year-old Vladimir Girshkin, who immigrated to America from Russia as a boy and now holds down a bureaucratic job in a nonprofit immigrant assistance organization. Girshkin, the protagonist of this entertaining, satirical first novel, is caught in his own surreal landscape, which includes his family, his dominatrix girlfriend, and his artsy Tribeca friends. But none of them tops the Fan Man, an elderly, self-professed psychotic Russian whose closest friends are his portable fans and whose sole desire is to become a U.S. citizen. Through the Fan Man, Girshkin is hurtled into an even more surreal scene, the expatriate community of Prava in the Republic of Stolovaya--a fictional Prague--which, as the Paris of the 1990s, attracts a wealthy arts crowd from Europe and North America. It is also prime territory for Russian gangsters, particularly the Fan Man's son, who is the boss of the Russian mob in Prava. Girshkin encounters more misadventures as he finds himself firmly repatriated in both worlds. Frank Caso
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Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.
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Durch sein neues Buch "Super sad true lovestory" war ich auf den Autoren aufmerksam geworden. Selbiges hatte mir sehr gut gefallen. Bei diesem Buch war ich ca. 200 Seiten lang enttäuscht, da die Geschichte doch sehr ziellos vor sich hinplätscherte. Ab Seite 200 beginnt die Hauptperson aber, sich in einer neuen Umgebung ein "neues" Leben aufzubauen. Das hat der Autor dann für mich spannenden und mitreißend beschrieben.
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Sort of like "Youth in revolt" in the Russian emigre circles. Start plus first half are fantastic and desrve 5 stars. The thing dies down later unfortunately. But still is very much worth reading and, in its best moments a mixture of a bit Nabokov and a bit Philipp Roth. I recommend it..
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The characterization of Vladimir Girshkin is excellent, from how he looks and dresses (which morphs through the book), to how he thinks about himself, his family, his ethniticity, to how he perceives the other Russians and Americans around him. Many humoristic moments as Vladimir, in an effort to get himself out of a dead-end life, gets in with deeper and crazier schemes to extract money and respect from different criminal elements, all the while building (or rebuilding?) the ego inside the man. The characterization, as a trip of self-discovery, is very well written.
But I did find myself forcing to finish. I did end up caring about the characters, esp. Vladimir and Morgan in the end, so I pushed on wanting to see what happened to them. But the plot bogged down, taking turns that made the humourously ludicrous ones in the beginning of the story seem normal. You have to suspend your reality checks for a novel like this, but it just got harder to do toward the end. The clever literary references and play on words at the later half of the novel didn't make me chuckle or think as much as the ones in the beginning.
I will read Mr. Shtenyngart's next novel with anticipation. Writing any novel is hard work, and I'm glad Gary pressed on with number 2.
But I did find myself forcing to finish. I did end up caring about the characters, esp. Vladimir and Morgan in the end, so I pushed on wanting to see what happened to them. But the plot bogged down, taking turns that made the humourously ludicrous ones in the beginning of the story seem normal. You have to suspend your reality checks for a novel like this, but it just got harder to do toward the end. The clever literary references and play on words at the later half of the novel didn't make me chuckle or think as much as the ones in the beginning.
I will read Mr. Shtenyngart's next novel with anticipation. Writing any novel is hard work, and I'm glad Gary pressed on with number 2.
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