In 2016, the literary critic Raymond Malewitz published an article on "digital posthumanism" in the novel in the journal Arizona Quarterly. It was named one of the best books of the year by numerous publications, including The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, O: The Oprah Magazine, Maureen Corrigan of NPR, and Slate. It was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year (Fiction & Poetry, 2010), New York Times bestseller (Fiction, 2010), and Amazon's Best Books of the Month in August 2010. The novel won the Salon Book Award (Fiction, 2010) and the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize (2011). Ībramov, acting as the POV character, explains the future of the US in the wake of the sudden collapse of the Bipartisan government, in a political event called “The Rupture". The US is called an "unstable, barely governable country presenting grave risk to the international system of corporate governance and exchange mechanisms" by a member of the Chinese Central Bank.
The current USA is fixed in a cult of youth based on the oversaturated "GlobalTeens" social media site, which has the phrase "Less words = more fun!!!".
In the story, to describe the change in relative positions, six million Chinese Yuan is equal to US$50 million. The United States invaded Venezuela at some point. Italy is the only and last country in Europe that has any meaningful dealings with the US. Abramov is a member of the Creative Class, who sells long-term life extension to high net worth individuals in Italy. In the meantime, the totalitarian Bipartisan Party government's main mission is to encourage and promote consumerism while eliminating political dissidents, under US President Cortez. In the twilight nation, the only three industries left are Media, Credit, and Retail. America is on the brink of economic collapse, threatened by its Chinese creditors. In the background of what appears to be a love story that oscillates between superficiality and despair, a grim political situation unravels. The chapters alternate between profuse diary entries from the old-fashioned Lenny and Eunice's biting e-mail correspondence on her "GlobalTeens" account. The son of a Russian immigrant, protagonist Leonard (Lenny) Abramov, a middle-aged, middle class, otherwise unremarkable man whose mentality is still in the past century, falls madly in love with Eunice Park, a young Korean-American from New Jersey struggling with materialism and the pressures of her traditional Korean family.
The novel takes place in a near-future dystopian New York where life is dominated by media and retail. Super Sad True Love Story is the third novel by American writer Gary Shteyngart.
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