This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
Copyright © 2006 by Gary Shteyngart
All rights reserved.
Published in the United States by Random House, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.
RANDOM HOUSE and colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.
Portions of this work were originally published, in significantly different form, in The New Yorker.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Shteyngart, Gary.
Absurdistan : a novel / Gary Shteyngart.
p. cm.
eISBN-13: 978-1-58836-530-9
eISBN-10: 1-58836-530-1
I. Title
PS3619.H79A63 2006
813'.6—dc22 2005054308
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