The issues made in the story can be easily grasped and understand through a Marxist reading of the main points of the story is centered on its economic turmoil and class division that is found throughout the book. He is the author of the novels Super Sad True Love Story (2010), Absurdistan (2006) and The Russian Debutante's Handbook (2002).Super Sad True Love Story won the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize and was selected as one of the best books of the year by over 40 news journals and magazines … Gary Shteyngart, author of Super Sad True Love Story writes with a vaguely familiar and all too realistic narrative depicting a ‘very near future’ in America.This novel centres on two entirely opposite characters: Lenny Abramov and Eunice Park.

Super Sad True Love Story takes a look into an exaggerated future of excessive hedonism and impulsiveness with a satirical touch that shows an ever so possible future. Gary Shteyngart was born in Leningrad in 1972, and came to the United States seven years later. The novel is told through rotating chapters spoken from the first-person narratives taken from entries of Lenny’s diary and entries from the GlobalTeens (an obvious satirical stand-in for Facebook) account of his twenty-year old Korean girlfriend, Eunice (screen name Euni-Tard) Park. Super Sad True Love Story is satire after all. Super Sad True Love Story, by Gary Shteyngart, Granta RRP£12.99, 272 pages. Super Sad True Love Story is a smart, funny and - it is true - sad satire that leaves one worried for the future. The Super Sad True Love Story Community Note includes chapter-by-chapter summary and analysis, character list, theme list, historical context, author biography and quizzes written by … Like Slate on Facebook . In Super Sad True Love Story, Gary Shteyngart tries to cram in as much as he knows about the world. Super Sad True Love Story is an epistolary novel built around the diaries of Lenny Abramov and the online posts of Eunice. The former is a middle aged, middle class American man of Russian descent and the latter is a 24 year old Korean-American woman. But in the end all he knows is his own—very sharp, fully human—mind. Some say the world will end in fire; Gary Shteyngart has a darker vision.