the tsar of love and techno by anthony marra

The character’s fates are often spoiled in the earlier stories, so the mystery is how they reached their fate. They may begrudge us, may think us unambitious and narrow-minded, but someday they will realize that what makes them unremarkable is what keeps them alive. We’ve given them all we can, but our greatest gift has been to imprint upon them our own ordinariness. His characters are complex and they often betray their loved ones, but they are doing the best they can to survive. Kirovsk is a nickel mining town described as a “poisoned post-apocalyptic hellscape,” with an artificial forest designed to “make people forget that living where humans don’t belong.” But even in the bleakest of settings, Marra manages to inject humanity and humor. The stories are primarily set in a landmine-filled pasture in Chechnya, a pasture that was also the subject of an obscure nineteenth-century painting, and Kirovsk, Russia, where many of the characters grew up. He distills so much wisdom into brief sentences and his prose is beautiful without being flowery. (The Leopard)Īnthony Marra is such an efficient writer.

It takes nothing less than the whole might of the state to erase a person, but only the error of one individual–if that is what memory is now called–to preserve her.

It addresses the futility of trying to erase people and events, human adaptability, the absurdity of life and war, and the smallness of our lives in relation to the enormity of the universe. I can’t read Anthony Marra without highlighting half the book! The Tsar of Love and Techno consists of nine interconnected short stories spanning over 75 years in Chechnya and Russia. History is the error we are forever correcting. on The Girl With All the Gifts by M.R.Примите по ссылке далее > on The Wife Between Us by Greer Hendricks & Sarah Pekkanen

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The tsar of love and techno by anthony marra