The Tsar of Love and Techno
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.
Awards
- National Book Critics Circle Award for FictionShortlistedMajor(2015)
Other awarded books from Anthony Marra
- A Constellation of Vital Phenomena (2013)1 win · 5 score
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