The narrative proceeds in a surprising yet inevitable manner to the outcome the title promises. “This cyber-apocalyptic vision of an American future seems eerily like the present, in a bleak comedy that is even more frightening than funny…Chilling.
Not so much a sad love story about two people as one of an entire world. “Adam Grupper and Ali Ahn bring these characters to life, perfectly voicing their perspectives. “Full-tilt and fulminating satirist Shteyngart is mordant, gleeful, and embracive as he funnels today’s follies and atrocities into a devilishly hilarious, soul-shriveling, and all-too plausible vision of a ruthless and crass digital dystopia in which techno-addled humans are still humbled by love and death.” “What do you get when you cross Woody Allen with Lolita and 1984? Gary Shteyngart’s new satirical novel, Super Sad True Love Story…Grupper and Ahn’s performances provide listeners with all the wit, humor, and clever writing to be found in this unique novel.” A rich commentary on the obsessions and catastrophes of the information age and a heartbreaker worthy of its title, this is Shteyngart’s best yet.” “Shteyngart presents another profane and dizzying satire, a dystopic vision of the future as convincing-and, in its way, as frightening-as Cormac McCarthy’s The Road…Shteyngart’s earnestly struggling characters-along with a flurry of running gags-keep the nightmare tour of tomorrow grounded. “Blending sharp satire with moving portraits of love between lonely people, Gary Shteyngart’s fiendishly clever third novel leaves you wondering whether that dull ache in your stomach is from laughter or just plain sadness…Like flicking between Tolstoy and Facebook on an iPad.” “A slit-your-wrist satire illuminated by the author’s absurd wit…This zany Russian immigrant loops the comedy of Woody Allen’s Sleeper through the grim insights of George Orwell’s 1984 to produce a Super Sad True Love Story that exposes the moral bankruptcy of our techno-lust.” “Funny, on-target, and ultimately sad as it captures the absurdity and anxiety of navigating an increasingly out-of-control world.” “With Shteyngart’s nutty knack for tangy language, it’s as if Vladimir Nabokov rewrote 1984.” “Shteyngart makes trenchant, often hilarious, observations about a fading empire.”
Shteyngart gives us his most powerful and heartfelt novel yet-a novel that performs the delightful feat of mashing up an apocalyptic satire with a genuine supersad true love story.” “A supersad, superfunny, superaffecting performance…that also uncovers his abilities to write deeply and movingly about love and loss and mortality…In recounting the story of Lenny and Eunice in his antic, supercaffeinated prose, Mr.
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