PositiveThe GuardianBlending sharp satire with moving portraits of love between lonely people, Gary Shteyngart\'s fiendishly clever third novel leaves you wondering whether that dull ache in your stomach is from laughter or just plain sadness ... These passages are wrenchingly sad and display an emotional intelligence that was less to the fore in Shteyngart\'s previous novels ... Shteyngart hops between the deep soulfulness of Russian literature and the skittish parlance of online communication. It feels like flicking between Tolstoy and Facebook on an iPad. This is perhaps intentional – the information age provides the novel with much to mourn, including our attention spans ... It\'s said that good satire should afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted. On finishing Super Sad True Love Story, you feel both bruised and consoled at once.
