„This novel is so immodestly vigorous, so burstingly sure of its barbaric excellence, that simply bí breathing, sweating and standing upright it exalts itself… Shteingart is a giant.”
The New York Times Book Review
„Marvelous, energetic wit.” The Washington Post Book World
The first truly effectie satire of the twenty-first century…. The novel's antihero. Misha Vainberg, an obscenly fat and rich Russina, finds himself lovelorn in the imaginary nation of Absurdistan, a country swiftly descending into a civil war." The New York Observer
