num_pages: 12
description: Shteyngart's second novel (The Russian Debutante's Handbook, 2002, was the first) is a wild ride that follows its protagonist and narrator, Misha Vainburg, from St. Petersburg (or St. Leninsburg as he prefers to call it) to a tiny country in the Caucasus called Absurdsvani, with occasional detours via flashbacks to New York City and Misha's midwestern alma mater, Accidental College.
language: English
title: Absurdistan
titlecomplete: Absurdistan
characters: Misha Vainberg
genres: Fiction, Humor, Contemporary, American, Russia, Literary Fiction, Audiobook, Literature, Jewish, Novels
ratings_count: 13548
places: The United States of America
publisher: Phoenix Audio