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Title: Intelligent and Funny ?! You Must be Kidding !!!
Review: According to the reviews on the cover "Ambitious, intelligent and funny". How about boring and no imagination ? The book cover together with few first chapters is probably the most promising part of the book. But once it moves to the Eastern Europe it could sound funny and intelligent to people who don't know much about Russians and Prague (Oh yes, fictional Prava, is Prague, shocked ?). Prava is definitely not a product of the author's imagination as he claims in the book, people speak Czech, have Czech names and go to places everybody who has lived in Prague recognizes. You just keep wondering, why to combine the third rate gangster movie with the outsider ideas about the American expats in Eastern Europe and hope for a good debut . I would sure not compare Gary Shteyngart to Nabokov.
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