The Tsar of Love and Techno: Stories
by:
Anthony Marra (author)
From the New York Times bestselling author of A Constellation of Vital Phenomena—dazzling, poignant, and lyrical interwoven stories about family, sacrifice, the legacy of war, and the redemptive power of art.This stunning, exquisitely written collection introduces a cast of remarkable characters...
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From the New York Times bestselling author of A Constellation of Vital Phenomena—dazzling, poignant, and lyrical interwoven stories about family, sacrifice, the legacy of war, and the redemptive power of art.This stunning, exquisitely written collection introduces a cast of remarkable characters whose lives intersect in ways both life-affirming and heartbreaking. A 1930s Soviet censor painstakingly corrects offending photographs, deep underneath Leningrad, bewitched by the image of a disgraced prima ballerina. A chorus of women recount their stories and those of their grandmothers, former gulag prisoners who settled their Siberian mining town. Two pairs of brothers share a fierce, protective love. Young men across the former USSR face violence at home and in the military. And great sacrifices are made in the name of an oil landscape unremarkable except for the almost incomprehensibly peaceful past it depicts. In stunning prose, with rich character portraits and a sense of history reverberating into the present, The Tsar of Love and Techno is a captivating work from one of our greatest new talents.
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Format: Paperback
ISBN:
9780770436452 (0770436455)
ASIN: 0770436455
Publish date: 2016-07-19
Publisher: Hogarth
Pages no: 384
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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