Wow.I love books that feature connected short stories. That said, I wish I had kept notes of the characters' names from the beginning, because so many reappear much later in the book, and it took me a bit to wrap my head around who was who. Because not everyone knows everyone else. I feel like maybe...
What a fantastic book! Marra weaves a fantastic tale about our search for humanity and connection in a bizarre world gone mad. He draws a world that is at once mundane and surreal. He manages to show our persistent striving for understanding in a world that defies understanding, and his chosen setti...
I should preface this by saying that I loved A Constellation of Vital Phenomena, so I was fully prepared for the beauty and desolation this title promised. This is a collection of short stories that Marra has woven together with the lives of its characters connected in sometimes subtle and unexpecte...
This is a series of interconnecting short stories which take place in Russia, spanning the years of 1937 to 2013, even including a story entitled “Outer Space, Year Unknown”. The first four stories comprise “Side A”, with “The Tsar of Love and Techno” being the Intermission story, with the next four...
For me, this was a very chilling, compelling, sad, touching and moving story of life in the Soviet Union over several decades. There were not a lot of happy times in this tale. There was, however, a lot of loss.A man whose job it is to take enemy's faces out of pictures or to keep Stalin's face look...
My boyfriend has a knack for knowing when I reach the last 20 pages of a book and chooses that moment to badger me with questions or otherwise distract me. (Even if he's not home at the time, it's uncanny, I'll start getting texts as soon as I near the finish line.) But as I dove into the final stor...
I’ve been waiting for something new from Anthony Marra since 2013, when A Constellation of Vital Phenomena came out. The book was so moving, so beautifully written, that I just wanted more. The thing I loved most about that book was the way that each character’s life would touch other characters’ li...
I was already a fan of Anthony Marra first book, 'A Constellation of Vital Phenomena', which is one of my favourite books to this day. So when I saw that he had written a series of short stories, I knew that I wanted to read them.The characters are real and interesting, in a time of Russian history ...
3.5 Stars A collection of short stories by Anthony Marra which actually read like a novel because the stories are so well connected.Anthony Marra has a unique way of telling a story and readers and lovers of his past work [b:A Constellation of Vital Phenomena|18428067|A Constellation of Vital Phen...
hs This collection is not as good as the previous collection, though it does have slightly more international feel (several stories are translations). Despite the title, there is more than Greek mythology in play here as well. Perhaps because it is sadder, the term that Bernheimer us...
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