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The Tsar of Love and Techno
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  • Published: 19 July 2016
  • ISBN: 9780770436452
  • Imprint: Random House US Group
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 384
  • RRP: $39.99

The Tsar of Love and Techno

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4 Aug 2016
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26 Jan 2017
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14 Aug 2017
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19 July 2016
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From the author of National Book Award longlist selection and New York Times bestseller A Constellation of Vital Phenomena come these dazzling, poignant, and lyrical interwoven stories about family, sacrifice, the legacy of war, and the redemptive power of art.

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.
  • Published: 19 July 2016
  • ISBN: 9780770436452
  • Imprint: Random House US Group
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 384
  • RRP: $39.99
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About the author

Anthony Marra

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/.

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Praise for The Tsar of Love and Techno

Praise for Anthony Marra's A Constellation of Vital Phenomena

  • "A flash in the heavens that makes you look up and believe in miracles . . . You simply must read this book." --Ron Charles, Washington Post
  • "Extraordinary . . . a twenty-first-century War and Peace." --New York Times Book Review
  • "Ambitious and intellectually restless . . . [Marra is] a prose writer who resembles the Joseph Heller of Catch-22 and the Jonathan Safran Foer of Everything Is Illuminated." --Dwight Garner, New York Times
  • "Amazing . . . brilliant . . . one of the most accomplished and affecting books I've read in a very long time." --Meg Wolitzer, author of The Interestings, for NPR

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