Little Failure (60 page)

Little Failure
Super Sad True Love Story
Absurdistan
The Russian Debutante’s Handbook

G
ARY
S
HTEYNGART
was born in Leningrad in 1972 and came to the United States seven years later. He is the author of the novels
Super Sad True Love Story
(2010),
Absurdistan
(2006), and
The Russian Debutante’s Handbook
(2002), and the memoir
Little Failure. Super Sad True Love Story
won the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize and was selected as one of the best books of the year by more than forty news journals and magazines around the world.
Absurdistan
was chosen as one of the ten best books of the year by
The New York Times Book Review
and
Time
magazine.
The Russian Debutante’s Handbook
won the Stephen Crane Award for First Fiction and the National Jewish Book Award for Fiction. His fiction and essays have appeared in
The New Yorker
,
Granta
,
Esquire
,
GQ
,
Travel
+
Leisure
,
The New York Times Magazine
, and many other publications. His work has been translated into twenty-eight languages.

Gary Shteyngart is available for select readings and lectures. To inquire about a possible appearance, please contact the Random House Speakers Bureau at 212-572-2013 or
[email protected]
.