I'm so excited about our next book selection - The Tsar of Love and Techno by Anthony Marra - a set of interconnected stories spanning generations from the Russian Revolution to modern day Chechnya. The characters and plot lines weave together, reverberate, and intensify into a gut wrenching final few chapters. It's been a long while since a book hit me like this one.
Through discussions and recommendations at previous Book Group meetings, many of you may have read Marra's excellent first novel, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena, also set in Chechnya. For me, this was better and left me eager to re-read and discuss with others. Hence my "quick survey" email last week. Marra is a young writer of spectacular talent and at the top of his game in this fine collection.
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