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The Tsar of Love and Techno
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  • Published: 26 January 2017
  • ISBN: 9781473549050
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Length: 10 hr 46 min
  • Narrators: Mark Bramhall, Beata Pozniak, Rustam Kasymov
  • RRP: $21.99

The Tsar of Love and Techno

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EBook
4 Aug 2016
Audiobook
26 Jan 2017
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14 Aug 2017
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19 July 2016
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The new book from one of the most prize-winning young writers in the US – nine dazzling interwoven stories about family, sacrifice, the legacy of war and the redemptive power of art

Random House presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of The Tsar of Love and Techno by Anthony Marra, read by Mark Bramhall, Beata Pozniak and Rustam Kasymov.

The Tsar of Love and Techno begins in 1930s Leningrad, where a failed portrait artist employed by Soviet censors must erase political dissenters from official images and artworks. One day, he receives an antique painting of a dacha inside a box of images due to be altered. The mystery behind this painting threads together the stories that follow, which take us through a century and introduce 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

  • Published: 26 January 2017
  • ISBN: 9781473549050
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Length: 10 hr 46 min
  • Narrators: Mark Bramhall, Beata Pozniak, Rustam Kasymov
  • RRP: $21.99
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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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