Tsar of Love and Techno - Anthony Marra
Stories
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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 a century as they thread together a cast of characters including 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. Praise for A Constellation of Vital Phenomena 'Storytelling of magical purity, illuminated by hope... Marra is a magnificent writer' The Times 'Extraordinary... a 21st-century War and Peace' New York Times Book Review 'An absolute masterpiece' Sarah Jessica Parker, Entertainment Weekly Marra is the winner of: the National Book Critics Circle's John Leonard Prize, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, ...
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Former library book laminated cover; ownership stamp to the front endpapers. In good condition, slight browning paper. Voormalig bibliotheekboek gelamineerde omslag; eigendom stempel op de voorste schutbladen. Lichtbruin papier
