When the story starts Roman has already gave up his beloved brother Vaska to authorities for committing rebellious acts. Roman is a failed portrait artist whose job is to airbrush certain persons from official photos whom the Soviet state has purged. He works for the Department of Party Propaganda and Agitation. The story was written from the point of view of a censor named Roman Osipovich Markin. The book’s first story ‘Leopard’ is set in 1937 – in the oppressive era of Stalinist purges. He studied at Iowa’ Writers Workshop and now working as a teacher at Stanford. He also visited the Republic of Chechnya, immediately after the end of brutal second Chechen War. Marra has taught himself Russian and studied in Eastern Europe. Marra takes a broader view of Soviet Union and modern Russia, spanning generations, places and scrutinizing emotional truths. Anthony Marra’s debut novel ‘A Constellation of Vital Phenomena’ was set in a broken-down hospital in war-ravaged Chechnya, which won National Book Award and earned huge acclaims in the Book Critics Circle. Petersburg (Leningrad), and Checnya between 19. The intricately linked web of stories are set in Siberia, St. The book consists of nine tightly interwoven vignettes which read more like a novel than short stories. American writer Anthony Marra’s The Tsar of Love and Techno uses fictional characters and set-ups to explore the past and present realities with utmost clarity. It’s the truth which reality or history books often obscure. Albert Camus said, ‘Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth’.
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