Our Country Friends

Our Country Friends is a novel by Shteyngart that was shortlisted for the 2022 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction. It follows a group of friends and friends-of-friends who gather in a country house to wait out the pandemic, and explores new friendships and romances, as well as old betrayals. The unlikely cast of characters includes a Russian-born novelist, his psychiatrist wife, their precocious child, a struggling Indian American writer, a successful Korean American app developer, a global dandy, an essayist, and a movie star. The book is both elegiac and very funny, and is considered Shteyngart's most ambitious work yet.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 336 pages
Publication date: 01 September 2022
Publisher: Atlantic Books

New York Times bestseller, shortlisted for the 2022 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction!

It is a true delight to immerse oneself in Shteyngart's expansive, benevolent storytelling. The Sunday Times hailed it as a masterpiece, stating, "There cannot be a more relevant novel for our moment, certainly not one with such beauty of description, depth of feeling, and, as always, humor." -Andrew Sean Greer, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Less

It's March 2020, and a calamity is unfolding. A group of friends and friends-of-friends gathers in a country house to wait out the pandemic. Over the next six months, new friendships and romances will take hold, while old betrayals will emerge, forcing each character to reevaluate whom they love and what matters most. The unlikely cast of characters includes a Russian-born novelist; his Russian-born psychiatrist wife; their precocious child obsessed with K-pop; a struggling Indian American writer; a wildly successful Korean American app developer; a global dandy with three passports; a Southern flamethrower of an essayist; and a movie star, the Actor, whose arrival upsets the equilibrium of this chosen family.

Both elegiac and incredibly, incredibly funny, Our Country Friends is the most ambitious book yet by the author of the beloved bestseller Super Sad True Love Story.

Weight: 237g
Dimension: 198 x 129 x 20 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781838956899
Edition number: Main