The Tsar of Love and Techno

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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 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
Anthony Marra is the author of 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. A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, a Guggenheim Fellow and Whiting Award recipient, Marra lives in Oakland, California, and teaches at Stanford University. The Tsar of Love and Techno is his second book. Visit http-//anthonymarra.net/.