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“Absurdistan is not just a hilarious novel, but a record of a particular peak in the history of human folly. No one is more capable of dealing with the transition from the hell of socialism to the hell of capitalism in Eastern Europe than Shteyngart, the great-great grandson of one…
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Hysterical, witty, and brilliant, Absurdistan is a political parody of the corruption underlying the George W Bush Administration’s war in Iraq. The main character, Misha, is an Ignatius knockoff who ends up on a rollercoaster of a hilarious adventure that gallops away with savagery about the reality of war, greed, and life.
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