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001			5628895
003			OSt1
005			20130702132653.0
008			050924s2006 nyu 000 1 eng
010			_a 2005054308
020			_a0812971675
024	3		_a9781400061969
035			_a(OCoLC)OCM61821954
035			_a(NNC)5628895
040			_aDLC _cThe Mico University College _dBAKER _dC#P _dOrLoB-B
050	0	0	_aPS3619.H79 _bA63 2006
082	0	0	_aF/SHT _222
100	1		_d1972-
245	1	0	_aAbsurdistan / _cGary Shteyngart.
250			_a1st ed.
260			_aNew York : _bRandom House, _cc2006.
300			_axi, 333 p. ; _c25 cm.
520	1		_a"Open Absurdistan and meet outsize Misha Vainberg, son of the 1,238th-richest man in Russia, lover of large portions of food and drink, lover and inept performer of rap music, and lover of a South Bronx Latina whom he longs to rejoin in New York City, if only the American INS will grant him a visa. But it won't, because Misha's late Beloved Papa whacked an Oklahoma businessman of some prominence. Misha is paying the price of exile from his adopted American homeland. He's stuck in Russia, dreaming of his beloved Rouenna and the Oz of NYC." "Salvation may lie in the tiny, oil-rich nation of Absurdistan, where a crooked consular officer will sell Misha a Belgian passport. But after a civil war breaks out between two competing ethnic groups and a local warlord installs hapless Misha as Minister of Multicultural Affairs, our hero soon finds himself covered in oil, fighting for his life, falling in love, and trying to figure out if a normal life is still possible in the twenty-first century." "Populated by curvaceous brown-eyed beauties, circumcision-happy Hasidic Jews, a loyal manservant who never stops serving, and scheming oil execs from a certain American company whose name rhymes with Malliburton, Absurdistan is a strange, oddly true-to-life look at how we live now, from a writer who should know."--BOOK JACKET.
655		7	_aHumorous fiction. _2gsafd
856	4	2	_3Contributor biographical information _uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0630/2005054308-b.html
856	4	2	_3Publisher description _uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0630/2005054308-d.html
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