Super Sad True Love Story (2010) (edit title/settings)

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Characters/People edit see section history

• Lenny Abramov: Search online for a picture of Gary S. That's Lenny. Main character and speaker of the book.
• Eunice Park: Daughter of Korean immigrants. Majored in Images, minored in Assertiveness.
• Sally: Eunice's younger sister. She begins getting into politics.
• Grace: Lenny's long-time friend and wife of Vishnu.
• David: a boring guy, doesnt even have last name
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• Nettie Fine: Largely responsible for integrating the recently-immigrated Abramov family into the cutlure and society of New York, and ulitmately the U.S.
• Vishnu: Long-time friend of Lenny, married to Grace.
• Lee
• Howard Shu: Director of Human Resources at Post-Human Services.
• Amy Greenberg: Girlfriend of Noah, hosts a successful Media stream.
• Leonard
• Darryl
• Kelly Nardi
• Suk Dik
• Noah Weinberg: Good friend of Lenny's, boyfriend of Amy, hosts his own successful Media stream.
• Joshie Goldmann: Founder of Post-Human Services, employer and father figure to Lenny.
• Palatino
• Cho
• Mama
• Laptev
• Chekhov
• Aziz: Leader of the resistance movement in Central Park
• Mr. Vida
• Li
• Sandi
• Tomas
• Julia
• Mommy
• Barnard
• Barry
• Prof Margaux

Quotes edit see section history

• “My youth has passed, but the wisdom of age hardly beckons.”

  Lenny Abramov

• “I know his heart is in the right place. It’s always in the right place. But after a while, who cares, right?”

  Eunice Park

• “I felt paternal and aroused, which is not a good combination”

  Lenny Abramov

• “Mulitple universes tempted me with their existence. Like the immutability of God or the survival of the soul, I knew they would prove a mirage, but still I grasped for belief. Because I believed in her.”

  Lenny Abramov

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• I’m learning to worship my new äppärät’s screen, the colorful pulsating mosaic of it, the fact that it knows every last stinking detail about the world, whereas my books only know the minds of their authors.

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• I think that’s where we went wrong as a country. We were afraid to really fight each other, and so we devolved into this Bipartisan thing and this ARA thing. When we lost touch with how much we really hate each other, we also lost the responsibility for our common future.

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• They were together for the obvious and timeless reason: It was slightly less painful than being alone.

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• Remember this, Lenny; develop a sense of nostalgia for something, or you’ll never figure out what’s important.

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• The love I felt for her on that train ride had a capital and provinces, parishes and a Vatican, an orange planet and many sullen moons—it was systemic and it was complete.

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• The phrase “I live for my kids,” for example, is tantamount to admitting that one will be dead shortly and that one’s life, for all practical purposes, is already over. “I’m gradually dying for my kids” would be more accurate.

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• Oh, dear diary. My youth has passed, but the wisdom of age hardly beckons. Why is it so hard to be a grown-up man in this world?

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• I relished hearing language actually being spoken by children. Overblown verbs, explosive nouns, beautifully bungled prepositions. Language, not data. How long would it be before these kids retreated into the dense clickety-clack äppärät world of their absorbed mothers and missing fathers?

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• For the first time in my life, I felt sorry for Jesus. Sorry that the miracles ascribed to him hadn’t actually made a difference. Sorry that we were all alone in a universe where even our fathers would let us get nailed to a tree if they were so inclined, or cut our throats if so commanded—see under Isaac, another unfortunate Jewish shmuck.

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• My hair would continue to gray, and then one day it would fall out entirely, and then, on a day meaninglessly close to the present one, meaninglessly like the present one, I would disappear from the earth. And all these emotions, all these yearnings, all these data, if that helps to clinch the enormity of what I’m talking about, would be gone. And that’s what immortality means to me, Joshie. It means selfishness. My generation’s belief that each one of us matters more than you or anyone else would think.

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Setting & Locations edit see section history

• Rome
• New York City
• America
• Manhattan
• Fabrizia
• Central Park
• Staten Island
• Venezuela
• Long Island
• Koreans
• Europe
• Italy
• California
• Westbury
• Chinatown
• Moscow
• New Jersey
• East River
• Brooklyn
• Russia
• Elderbird
• Onionskin
• Cedar Hill
• Padma
• Euny
• Ciudad Bolivar
• Saaami
• Tagamet
• States
• Hartford
• Kundera
• Grand Street
• Media
• Upper East Side
• Cinecitta
• Williamsburg Bridge
• Upper West Side
• Soviet Union
• Tompkins Park

Organizations edit see section history

• JuicyPussy: Clothing Company
• AssLuxury: Shopping network.
• Staatling-Wapachung Contingency: Company that Lenny works for.

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Table of Contents edit see section history

Glossary edit see section history

• äppärät: Super super Smart Phone

Themes & Symbolism edit see section history

• Consumerism: People in this book have devolved into consumers with no purpose beyond spending and acquiring. They are shallow and show a beautiful hyperbole of modern society. An amazing satire!

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Gary Shteyngart (Author)

First Edition edit see section history

Awards edit see section history

• Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize (2011)
• Amazon Best of the Month (August 2010, #3)

Classification edit see section history

• Library of Congress: PS3619.H79 S87 2010; LC control: 2009037971
• Dewey: 813.6

Subjects edit see section history

• Books › Literature & Fiction › Contemporary

Links to Supplemental Material edit see section history

• Super Sad True Love Story