The Ledig House International Writers Residency in upstate New York has always been there for me when I needed a green place to write and think.
The best parts of this book, such as they are, were written under the care of Beatrice von Rezzori and the Santa Maddalena Foundation, her remarkable writers’ retreat near Donnini, Italy.
About the Author
GARY SHTEYNGART was born in Leningrad in 1972 and came to the United States seven years later. His debut novel,
ALSO BY GARY SHTEYNGART
Copyright
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
Copyright © 2006 by Gary Shteyngart
All rights reserved.
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Portions of this work were originally published, in significantly different form, in
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Shteyngart, Gary.
Absurdistan : a novel / Gary Shteyngart.
p. cm.
eISBN-13: 978-1-58836-530-9
eISBN-10: 1-58836-530-1
I. Title
PS3619.H79A63 2006
813'.6—dc22 2005054308
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