TY - BOOK AU - Shteyngart,Gary TI - Super sad true love story SN - 9781847082497 (pbk.) : AV - PS3619.H79 U1 - 813.6 23 PY - 2011/// CY - London PB - Granta KW - Russian Americans KW - Fiction KW - Korean Americans KW - Books and reading KW - Riots KW - New York (State) KW - New York KW - Love stories KW - General Fiction KW - ukslc KW - Modern & contemporary fiction KW - thema KW - Fiction: general & literary KW - Science fiction: apocalyptic & post-apocalyptic N1 - Originally published: 2010 N2 - This humane novel is set in an economically and politically collapsed America. It tells the story of 39-year-old angry Russian immigrant janitor, Lenny Abramov; In a very near future, a functionally illiterate America is about to collapse. But don't tell that to poor Lenny Abramov, proud author of what may well be the world's last diary. Despite his job at an outfit called 'Post-Human Services', which attempts to provide immortality for its super-rich clientele, death is clearly stalking this cholesterol-rich morsel of a man. And why shouldn't it? Lenny's from a different century. He TOTALLY loves books (or 'printed, bound media artifacts' as they're now known), even though most of his peers find them smelly and annoying. But even more than books, Lenny loves Eunice Park, an impossibly cute and impossibly cruel twenty-four-year-old Korean-American woman who just graduated from Elderbird College with a major in 'Images' and a minor in 'Assertiveness'. When riots break out in New York's Central Park, the city's streets are lined with National Guard tanks and patient Chinese creditors look ready to foreclose on the whole mess, Lenny vows to convince his fickle new love that in a time without standards or stability, there is still value in being a real human being ER -