EAN: 9780593979464

Bilder-Quelle: averdo

A poignant sharp-eyed and bitterly funny tale of a family struggling to stay together in a country rapidly coming apart told through the eyes of their wondrous ten-year-old daughter by the bestselling author of Super Sad True Love Story and Our Country Friends “Pull up a beach chair: The book of the summer is here. . . . A poignant Harriet the Spy –esque delight.”— People (Book of the Week) “Genius . . . [a] miracle.”— The Washington Post “A novel you can read in one sitting that will stay with you forever.”—Karen Russell “Very funny very sad very sharp and completely delightful.”—Elif Batuman “A brilliant fable about childhood and so much more in our broken country.”— Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “A must-read.” —The Los Angeles Times “Shteyngart is one of the best comedians in literature today.”— BookPage (starred review) A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK: The New York Times Time The Washington Post The Boston Globe Bustle Vulture Town & Country Minneapolis Star Tribune Book Riot Publishers Weekly Literary Hub AV Club Hey Alma The Bradford-Shmulkin family is falling apart. A very modern blend of Russian Jewish Korean and New England WASP they love one another deeply but the pressures of life in an unstable America are fraying their bonds. There's Daddy a struggling cash-thirsty editor whose Russian heritage gives him a surprising new currency in the upside-down world of twenty-first-century geopolitics his wife Anne Mom a progressive underfunded blue blood from Boston who's barely holding the household together their son Dylan whose blond hair and Mayflower lineage provide him pride of place in the newly forming American political order and above all the young Vera half-Jewish half-Korean and wholly original. Observant sensitive and always writing down new vocabulary words Vera wants only three things in life: to make a friend at school Daddy and Anne Mom to stay together and to meet her birth mother Mom Mom who will at last tell Vera the secret of who she really is and how to ensure love's survival in this great mad imploding world. Both biting and deeply moving Vera or Faith is a boldly imagined story of family and country told through the clear and tender eyes of a child. With a nod to What Maisie Knew Henry James's classic story of parents children and the dark ironies of a rapidly transforming society Vera or Faith demonstrates why Shteyngart is in the words of The New York Times "one of his generation's most exhilarating writers."

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