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  <name><![CDATA[Gary Shteyngart]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[Gary Shteyngart (born 1972) is an American writer born in Leningrad, USSR (he alternately calls it &quot;St. Leningrad&quot; or &quot;St. Leninsburg&quot;). Much of his work is satirical and relies on the invention of elaborately fictitious yet somehow familiar places and times.

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  <title><![CDATA[Absurdistan]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Russian Debutante's Handbook]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Gary Shteyngart]]></name>
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