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The tsar of love and techno : stories  Cover Image Book Book

The tsar of love and techno : stories / Anthony Marra.

Marra, Anthony, (author.).

Summary:

"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."--Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780307362650 (paperback) :
  • Physical Description: 332 pages ; 21 cm.
  • Publisher: Toronto : Random House Canada, 2015.
Subject: Soviet Union. Main Administration of Corrective Labor Camps > Fiction.
Censorship > Fiction.
Civil war > Social aspects > Fiction.
Families > Social aspects > Fiction.
Chechni͡a︡ (Russia) > History > Civil War, 1994- > Fiction.
Genre: Short stories.

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Summary: "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."--Provided by publisher.

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