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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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A Granta Best Young American Novelist1930s 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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Autorenportrait
- Anthony Marra's first novel was<i>A Constellation of Vital Phenomena</i>(2013), which won an array of prizes including the National Book Critics Circles 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<i>The Tsar of Love and Techno.</i>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<u>http://anthonymarra.net/</u>.
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The Tsar of Love and Techno
eBook - Everyman's Library CLASSICS
ISBN/EAN: 9781448138500
Umbreit-Nr.: 4315625
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 336 S., 1.01 MB
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Keine Angabe
Erschienen am 04.08.2016
Auflage: 1/2016
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