Vera, or Faith

A Novel

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Beschreibung

<b>NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A <i>NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW </i>EDITORS’ CHOICE • A poignant and bitterly funny tale of a family struggling to stay together in a country rapidly coming apart, told through the eyes of their wondrous ten-year-old daughter, by the bestselling author of <i>Super Sad True Love Story </i>and <i>Our Country Friends</i><br><br>LONGLISTED FOR THE MARK TWAIN AMERICAN VOICE IN LITERATURE AWARD AND THE JOYCE CAROL OATES PRIZE • A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: <i>Time, Washington Post, </i>NPR<i>, Oprah Daily, Vox,</i> Denver Public Library, <i>Seattle Times, The Cap Times, Kirkus Reviews</i><br><br>“Pull up a beach chair: The book of the summer is here. . . . A poignant <i>Harriet the Spy</i>–esque delight.”—<i>People</i> (Book of the Week)<br>“Genius . . . [a] miracle.”—<i>The Washington Post</i><br>“A novel you can read in one sitting that will stay with you forever.”—Karen Russell <br>“Very funny, very sad, very sharp, and completely delightful.”—Elif Batuman<br>“A brilliant fable about childhood, and so much more, in our broken country.”—<i>Kirkus Reviews</i> (starred review)<br>“A must-read.”<i>—Los Angeles Times</i><br>“Shteyngart is one of the best comedians in literature today.”—<i>BookPage</i> (starred review)</b><br><br>The Bradford-Shmulkin family is falling apart. A very modern blend of Russian, Jewish, Korean, and New England WASP, they love one another deeply but the pressures of life in an unstable America are fraying their bonds. There's Daddy, a struggling, cash-thirsty editor whose Russian heritage gives him a surprising new currency in the upside-down world of twenty-first-century geopolitics; his wife, Anne Mom, a progressive, underfunded blue blood from Boston who's barely holding the household together; their son, Dylan, whose blond hair and Mayflower lineage provide him pride of place in the newly forming American political order; and, above all, the young Vera, half-Jewish, half-Korean, and wholly original.<br><br>Observant, sensi

Artikeldetails

EAN

9780593979464

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

193 x 131 x 25 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2025

Verlag / Hersteller

Random House LLC US