Edmund White, James Franco, Mary Gaitskill, Jeffery Eugenides and Jay McInerney all love him and I think you will too. Gary Shteyngart has just published his thrid novel, his editor David Ebershoff admits he harbours an unusual secret…
And – imagine until now – I had never even heard of Gary Shteyngart… doh!
Wikipedia list his awards … “Absurdistan was chosen as one of the ten best books of the year by The New York Times Book Review and Time magazine, as well as a book of the year by the Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle and many other publications. The Russian Debutante’s Handbook won the Stephen Crane Award for First Fiction, the Book-of-the-Month Club First Fiction Award and the National Jewish Book Award for Fiction. It was named a New York Times Notable Book and one of the best debuts of the year by The Guardian. In June 2010, Shteyngart was named as one of The New Yorker magazine’s “20 under 40” luminary fiction writers.”