{"product_id":"little-failure-a-memoir-by-gary-shteyngart","title":"Little Failure: A memoir by Gary Shteyngart","description":"\u003cp\u003eISBN: 9780241146682\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHamish Hamilton, January 2014\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e368 pages, Paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eGary Shteyngart's loving but mismatched parents dreamed that he would become a lawyer, or at least an accountant, something their distracted son was simply not cut out to do. Fusing English and Russian, his mother created the term Failurchka-'Little Failure'-which she applied to her son. With love. Mostly.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA candid and deeply poignant story of a Soviet family's trials and tribulations, and of their escape in 1979 to the consumerist promised land of the USA,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eLittle Failure\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is also an exceptionally funny account of the author's transformation from asthmatic toddler in Leningrad to 40-something Manhattanite with a receding hairline and a memoir to write.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"I H Pentz Booksellers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47272647884962,"sku":null,"price":150.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0364\/4047\/3732\/files\/81t33YYY01L._SY522.jpg?v=1779095334","url":"https:\/\/pentzbooks.co.za\/products\/little-failure-a-memoir-by-gary-shteyngart","provider":"I H Pentz Booksellers","version":"1.0","type":"link"}