Composer Anton Rubenstein conducts in formal evening wear(dark coat,
trousers, and waistcoat, white shirt and tie), 1887.
As previously announced, Accel's management team,
led by Co-Founder and CEO Andy Rubenstein, will continue to lead the Company.
While“Big Brother” still
exists in the Trump-like guise of Defence Secretary Rubenstein, who oversees numerous acts of severe government
repression in the novel, Shteyngart reserves his most biting satire for the way in which our own incessant sharing and insatiable consumption of data, along with the banalisation of our cultural life that ensues, implicates us all in the erosion of privacy and our civil liberties.