by Anthony Marra
On Day 21 of the Doubleday UK meme I'm following, it's time to reveal the novel you thought you'd hate but ended up loving. http://tinyurl.com/nh2qr65 Iowa Writers' Workshop MFA. Blurbed by Ann Patchett. I can feel my fangs glisten as I prepare to savage this...and yet I ended up giving it 4.5 s...
After Anthony Marra finished his first draft of A CONSTELLATION OF VITAL PHENOMENA, he printed it out and started re-typing the entire thing. He did this after typing the second and third drafts, too. He typed this entire novel, cover-to-cover, four times in total. To say he is worthy of all the awa...
Set in Chechnya, in the very recent past, this is a story of connections, relationships, and survival. Haava is a young eight year old girl, who witnesses her father's abduction by the Russian authorities. Ahkmed is the neighbor who rescues her. Sonja is a trauma surgeon and the only doctor remainin...
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