The Tsar of Love and Techno: Stories by Anthony Marra (English) Paperback Book

Description: The Tsar of Love and Techno by Anthony Marra A Granta Best Young American Novelist1930s Leningrad: a failed portrait artist employed by Soviet censors must erase political dissenters from official images and artworks. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description The new book from one of the most prize-winning young writers in the US - nine dazzling interwoven stories about family, sacrifice, the legacy of war and the redemptive power of artA Granta Best Young American Novelist1930s Leningrad- a failed portrait artist employed by Soviet censors must erase political dissenters from official images and artworks. One day, he receives an antique painting. The mystery behind this painting threads together each of the stories that follow, where we meet a Siberian beauty queen, a young soldier in the battlefields of Chechnya, the Head of the Grozny Tourist Bureau, a ballerina performing for the camp director of a gulag and many others. Notes A collection of nine stories about family, sacrifice, the legacy of war and the redemptive power of art, from the author of A Constellation of Vital Phenomena. Author Biography Anthony Marras first novel was A Constellation of Vital Phenomena (2013), which won an array of prizes including the National Book Critics Circles John Leonard Prize, the Barnes and Noble Fiction Discover Award, the Grand Prix des Lectrices de Elle and the Athens Prize for Literature, and appeared on more than twenty Books of the Year lists. This was followed by The Tsar of Love and Techno. A Granta Best of Young American Novelists 2017, a graduate of the Iowa Writers Workshop,a Guggenheim Fellow and Whiting Award recipient, Marra lives in Oakland, California, and teaches at Stanford University. Visit http-//anthonymarra.net/. Review Shares much with David Mitchells expansive Cloud Atlas, and it wears its blend of dry humour and tragedy very well... impressive -- Observer * Ben East *This book will burn itself into your heart. Its a collection of interlocking short stories that stand alone but also fit together, piece by delicate piece, to form an astonishing whole... Its funny, moving and beautiful * New York Times *Masterful ... mesmerising ... Like Nabokov, Marra is a writer for whom essential truths are found in detail... The nine interlocking stories grip from the off with their dry tone and meticulously realised worlds of totalitarian life and its aftermath -- Sarah Gilmartin * Irish Times *Gripping... painful and powerful, with welcome flashes of ironic humour, too -- John Sunyer * Financial Times *Marra creates an unnerving story of a world, then and now, dominated by untouchable authorities that operate at every social level... a writer of intelligence, wit and sensitivity, adept at telling stories that entertain but also create the sensation that they are not so strange as fiction -- George Berridge * Times Literary Supplement * Promotional The new book from one of the most prize-winning young writers in the US - nine dazzling interwoven stories about family, sacrifice, the legacy of war and the redemptive power of art Review Text Shares much with David Mitchells expansive Cloud Atlas , and it wears its blend of dry humour and tragedy very well... impressive Review Quote Shares much with David Mitchells expansive Cloud Atlas , and it wears its blend of dry humour and tragedy very well... impressive Promotional "Headline" The new book from one of the most prize-winning young writers in the US - nine dazzling interwoven stories about family, sacrifice, the legacy of war and the redemptive power of art Details ISBN1784707252 Author Anthony Marra Pages 336 Publisher Vintage Publishing Year 2017 ISBN-10 1784707252 ISBN-13 9781784707255 Format Paperback Publication Date 2017-08-03 Imprint Vintage Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Series Everymans Library Classics Media Book DEWEY 813.6 Short Title The Tsar of Love and Techno Language English Subtitle Stories UK Release Date 2017-08-03 AU Release Date 2017-08-03 NZ Release Date 2017-08-03 Narrator Matthew Beard Illustrator Mateus Santolouco Birth 1927 Affiliation Lecturer, University of Fort Hare Position Professor Qualifications J.D. Alternative 9781448138500 Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:116609952;

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