En Lake Success / Lake Success

«Gary Shteyngart capta Am廨ica a la perfecci鏮. [...] Cuando lo leo a veces me entran ganas de gritar: de admiraci鏮 y de pura risa. Richard Ford

Narcisista, vulgar, millonario, infantil, acomplejado, soberbio, displicente, inil, infatuado, estereot甑ico, incapaz, irresponsable: Barry Cohen est?sobradamente cualificado para ser la desastrosa encarnaci鏮 del sue隳 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 ca鏒ica e hilarante en la que recorrer?Estados Unidos en autob buscando un amor ideal, irreal y perdido hace a隳s. Este viaje de autoconocimiento capaz de arrasar con todo, en el que Barry ir?entablando estramb鏒icas relaciones con quien sale a su paso, es el fiel reflejo de la huida hacia delante de una Am廨ica que ha perdido el control de s?misma. Este es, a fin de cuentas, el presente de un pa疄 que quiere ser grande otra vez, quiz?monstruosamente grande.

Mediante la exageraci鏮, la deformaci鏮 y un sarcasmo irrefrenable, Shteyngart pone en la diana el esp甏itu de la 廧oca en una novela corrosiva, escandalosa y tremendamente divertida.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

'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