The Tsar of Love and Techno

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Description

A Granta Best Young American Novelist1930s Leningrad: a failed portrait artist employed by Soviet censors must erase political dissenters from official images and artworks. One day, he receives an antique painting. The mystery behind this painting threads together each of the stories that follow, where we meet a Siberian beauty queen, a young soldier in the battlefields of Chechnya, the Head of the Grozny Tourist Bureau, a ballerina performing for the camp director of a gulag and many others.

Additional information

Weight 0.234 kg
Dimensions 2 × 12.9 × 19.8 cm
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Format

Paperback

Language

Pages

336

Publisher

Year Published

2017-8-3

Imprint

Publication City/Country

London, United Kingdom

ISBN 10

1784707252

About The Author

Anthony Marra's first novel was A Constellation of Vital Phenomena (2013), which won an array of prizes including the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Prize, the Barnes and Noble Fiction Discover Award, the Grand Prix des Lectrices de Elle and the Athens Prize for Literature, and appeared on more than twenty Books of the Year lists. This was followed by The Tsar of Love and Techno. A Granta Best of Young American Novelists 2017, a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop,a Guggenheim Fellow and Whiting Award recipient, Marra lives in Oakland, California, and teaches at Stanford University. Visit http://anthonymarra.net/.

Review Quote

Shares much with David Mitchell's expansive Cloud Atlas, and it wears its blend of dry humour and tragedy very well… impressive

Other text

This book will burn itself into your heart. It's a collection of interlocking short stories that stand alone but also fit together, piece by delicate piece, to form an astonishing whole… It's funny, moving and beautiful