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Uno de los mejores libros del año según The New York Times Book Review, San Francisco Chronicle, NPR, The Washington Post, O: The Oprah Magazine, Library Journal, Kirkus Reviews y Financial Times, entre otros, elogiado unánimemente por la crítica.

«Gary Shteyngart capta América a la perfección. [...] Cuando lo leo a veces me entran ganas de gritar: de admiración y de pura risa.» Richard Ford

Narcisista, vulgar, millonario, infantil, acomplejado, soberbio, displicente, inútil, infatuado, estereotípico, incapaz, irresponsable: Barry Cohen está sobradamente cualificado para ser la desastrosa encarnación del sueño americano. Cuando, acosado por los problemas empresariales, le informan de que a su hijo le han diagnosticado autismo, decide dejarlo todo, abandonar a su familia y embarcarse en una odisea caótica e hilarante en la que recorrerá Estados Unidos en autobús buscando un amor ideal, irreal y perdido hace años. Este viaje de autoconocimiento capaz de arrasar con todo, en el que Barry irá entablando estrambóticas relaciones con quien sale a su paso, es el fiel reflejo de la huida hacia delante de una América que ha perdido el control de sí misma. Este es, a fin de cuentas, el presente de un país que quiere ser grande otra vez, quizá monstruosamente grande.

Mediante la exageración, la deformación y un sarcasmo irrefrenable, Shteyngart pone en la diana el espíritu de la época en una novela corrosiva, escandalosa y tremendamente divertida.

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'Gary Shteyngart hears America perfectly; its fatuity, its poignant lament, its boisterous self-loathing. Its heartbeat. Reading him sometimes makes me want to scream - with recognition and with pure hilarity' - Richard Ford

A riotously satirical road trip through modern America from the brilliant author of Super Sad True Love Story and Absurdistan

Barry Cohen, master of the universe, has just had a very public meltdown involving a dinner party, an insider trading investigation and a $30,000 bottle of Japanese whisky. So he flees New York City, leaving behind his beautiful young wife and son, but remembering to bring his six favourite designer watches. Zig-zagging south through Trump's America on a Greyhound Bus pilgrimmage he is singularly unprepared for, Barry heads to Texas - to find his old college girlfriend and, with her, a shot at a second chance...

Lake Success marries the trademark Shteyngart wit with an astonishing emotional resonance, capturing the vivid eccentricity and contradictions of America right now while speaking to the universal human experience of love, belonging, and the pursuit of happiness.

'A trip through the American wasteland - from the people who have too little, to the people who have too much. Incredibly smart, incredibly funny, incredibly tragic, and therefore incredibly human, this is the perfect novel for these dysfunctional times' - Nathan Hill
'The funniest book you'll read all year. A rollicking and zinger-filled road trip [that] sneakily deepens into a poignant tale of a man trying to outrace his problems.I was utterly floored' - Maria Semple

'Stupendous... Reflecting with perfect comedy and horrible tragedy exactly what America feels like right this minute... I barked with laughter at the same time as wincing in pain' - Elizabeth Gilbert
About the Author: Gary Shteyngart nació en Leningrado (hoy San Petersburgo) en 1972, a los siete años, emigró con su familia a Estados Unidos. Tras el éxito de Absurdistán (2008), Alfaguara publica su primera novela, El manual del debutante ruso, que fue galardonada en 2002 con el Premio Stephen Crane al Mejor Debut Literario y considerada uno de los mejores libros del año por The New York Times, The Washington Post Book World, The Guardian, Entertainment Weekly y la Asociación de Bibliotecas de Estados Unidos. En 2007 Shteyngart fue elegido por la revista literaria Granta uno de los mejores jóvenes novelistas estadounidenses. Sus relatos y ensayos han aparecido en publicaciones tan prestigiosas como The New Yorker, Granta, Esquire y The New York Times Magazine. En la actualidad vive en Nueva York, donde compagina su actividad literaria con la docencia en las universidades de Princeton y Columbia.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9788420438955
  • Publisher: Prh Grupo Editorial
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: Spanish
  • Returnable: Y
  • Weight: 662 gr
  • ISBN-10: 8420438952
  • Publisher Date: 21 Jun 2022
  • Height: 239 mm
  • No of Pages: 408
  • Spine Width: 0 mm
  • Width: 152 mm

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