Estate of the nation
Feb 04, 2022
3 minutes
By Sam Leith
ary Shteyngart’s contribution to the burgeoning genre of the lockdown novel is very, very Russian – in the best possible way. The premise is that a group of old friends are to spend a month in the country (well, several months) riding out New York’s pandemic in an ad hoc colony in the Hudson valley. The cast is a collection of privileged, mournful (as the “superfluous men” of 19th-century Russian literature were known) in late middle
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