With S.S.T.L.S Shtyngart has written a prescient novel of biting satire. America teeters on the brink of collapse and throws itself prone at the feet of China as its saviour, privacy has completely disappeared and celebrity is all pervading and perverse. Mix in the complicated love story of a book loving pitiable Russian American and a beautiful, young, calculating Korean girl and you have a super intelligent, intriguing book that really captures the zeitgeist.
- Ben