A terrible country: a novel

✍ Scribed by Keith Gessen

• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group;Viking
• Year: 2018;2019
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 218 KB
• Edition: Published by Penguin Books 2019
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

"This artful and autumnal novel, published in high summer, is a gift to those who wish to receive it."
--Dwight Garner, The New York Times
**"Hilarious, heartbreaking . . .A Terrible Country may be one of the best books you'll read this year."
--Ann Levin, **_Associated Press
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"The funniest work of fiction I've read this year."
-- Christian Lorentzen, Vulture.com
Taking such an intimate trip through the recent past of Putin's Russia is fascinating, made more so by the presence of Andrei's lively, sorrowful, unpredictable grandmother." --Vanity Fair
A literary triumph about Russia, family, love, and loyalty--the first novel in ten years from a founding editor of n+1 and author of All the Sad Young Literary Men
When Andrei Kaplan's older brother Dima insists that Andrei return to Moscow to care for their ailing grandmother, Andrei must take stock...