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The Tsar of Love and Techno

Anthony Marra

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#3557 of 8,085 books · #664 in Fantasy

Shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction (2015).

Anthony Marra was a Granta Best Young American Novelist. 1930s 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.

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Publisher
Random House
ISBN-13
9781448138500
Topics
Soviet history and censorshipWar and conflict in ChechnyaInterconnected lives across generations

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