This is a book about a war that essentially has very little war related content. The Author tells a story interwoven with richly developed characters set in Chechnya during a complex, conflicted time of war. Knowing hardly anything about the conflict in that region, I was grateful for the brief clar...
This is a book about a war that essentially has very little war related content. The Author tells a story interwoven with richly developed characters set in Chechnya during a complex, conflicted time of war. Knowing hardly anything about the conflict in that region, I was grateful for the brief clar...
If you're one of those readers who likes to read award-winners, a reader who reads all the books on the Best of... lists at the end of the year, a member of a book club that will likely read this book in the distant future, or just someone who wants to read great fiction before anyone else knows abo...
I give this one a 4.75, which I realize wouldn't even work on a 10 star scale. I thought the book was exceptionally well written and plotted out, with great prose. It felt like you were right there with the characters, trying to survive alongside them in a war torn corner of the world. The story ...
Anthony Marra said that he wrote the kind of book that he wanted to read. His interest in the Chechnyan region was stimulated by spending university time in St Petersburg, shortly after the assassination of a Russian journalist who wrote extensively about the Chechen wars. Novels about the Chechny...
I'm a total Hogarth fangirl now, having first fallen in love with I Am Forbidden and then The Headmaster's Wager. Set in a small town in the Chechan Republic, the novel takes place over five days, shifting from 'present' -- 2004 -- back to 1994. (The time jumps are beautiful noted at the start of ...
What I knew about Chechnya could have fit inside of a teacup. "Oh yea, that place where there's been a lot of trouble. It's in Russia, right?" I have a much better grasp of the events there after reading this book. Marra explains the past of this country in an accessible and moving way.The story her...
After Havaa’s father is abducted by Russian soldiers for aiding the Chechen rebels, a family friend brings her to Sonja, a tough-minded surgeon with her own connection to the war.He had always tried to treat Havaa as a child and she always went along with it, as though childhood and innocence were f...
This book did not work for me. It’s being hailed as a great literary debut, with readers rhapsodizing about it right and left, and I don’t take issue with the writing style, but the characters and their stories failed to engage me.A Constellation of Vital Phenomena (that's a mouthful!) is set in Che...
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