The Tsar of Love and Techno
by:
Anthony Marra (author)
The Tsar of Love and Techno begins in 1930s Leningrad, where a failed portrait artist is tasked by Soviet censors to erase political dissenters from official images and artworks. One day, he receives an antique painting of a dacha inside a box of images meant to be altered. The mystery behind...
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The Tsar of Love and Techno begins in 1930s Leningrad, where a failed portrait artist is tasked by Soviet censors to erase political dissenters from official images and artworks. One day, he receives an antique painting of a dacha inside a box of images meant to be altered. The mystery behind this painting reverberates through the stories that follow, which take us through
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ISBN:
9781781090480
Publisher: Hogarth
Pages no: 320
Edition language: English
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...
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