{"product_id":"our-country-friends-9781838956899b","title":"Our Country Friends","description":"\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e***\u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/span\u003e bestseller, shortlisted for 2022 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction!***\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003eIt's March 2020 and a calamity is unfolding. A group of friends and friends-of-friends gathers in a country house to wait out the pandemic. Over the next six months, new friendships and romances will take hold, while old betrayals will emerge, forcing each character to reevaluate whom they love and what matters most. The unlikely cast of characters includes a Russian-born novelist; his Russian-born psychiatrist wife; their precocious child obsessed with K-pop; a struggling Indian American writer; a wildly successful Korean American app developer; a global dandy with three passports; a Southern flamethrower of an essayist; and a movie star, the Actor, whose arrival upsets the equilibrium of this chosen family. \u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBoth elegiac and very, very funny, \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eOur Country Friends\u003c\/span\u003e is the most ambitious book yet by the author of the beloved bestseller\u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003e Super Sad True Love Story.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e'It's a true pleasure to sink into Shteyngart's expansive, benevolent storytelling' \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A masterpiece . . . There cannot be a more relevant novel for our moment, certainly not one with such beauty of description, depth of feeling, and, as always, humour.'-Andrew Sean Greer, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Less\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Bargain","offer_id":42820105306192,"sku":"9781838956899B","price":5.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0592\/8173\/5760\/files\/9781838956899-l.jpg?v=1785878509","url":"https:\/\/bookoutlet.com\/products\/our-country-friends-9781838956899b","provider":"Book Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}