This is a really, really weird book. I read his first novel, The Russian Debutante's Handbook, which was also weird. But I like them. Absurdistan feels a little more self-conscious to me (there's a character based loosely on the writer in the book who functions as a remote nemesis of the protagonist), and the satire is not the most subtle I've ever read. Really engaging, though, and politically comic.
Also, it was given to me for my birthday by my brother, and reading a book given to you as a gift is always a richer experience, I think. I love books.
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