Our Country Friends (Shteyngart Gary)(Pevná vazba) - diskuze

A powerful, emotionally rich novel about a group of friends sheltering in place at a country house, a book that reads like a great Russian novel, or Chekhov on the Hudson, by the bestselling author of Super Sad True Love Story. It's March 2020 and a calamity is unfolding. A group of friends and friends-of-friends gathers in a country house to wait out the pandemic. Over the next few months new bonds of friendship and love will take hold, while old betrayals will emerge among this unlikely cast of characters, each richly drawn and achingly human: a Russian-born novelist; his Russian-born psychiatrist wife; their precocious child obsessed with K-pop; a struggling Indian American writer; a wildly successful Korean American app developer; a global dandy with three passports; a young flame-thrower of an essayist, originally from the Carolinas; and a movie star, The Actor,
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