The Tsar of Love and Techno : Stories (Hardcover)

from BrandieC

Although The Tsar of Love and Techno is, superficially, a collection of "interwoven" stories, I quickly realized that the stories were so closely linked that I couldn't rate each story individually, as I would ordinarily do with a collection of short stories. Rather, The Tsar of Love and Techno i...

from michigantrumpet

Anthony Marra's "Constellation of Vital Phenomena" was one of my favorite books of 2014. His return to Chechnya in "Tsar of Love and Techno" is another huge success. His characters are beautifully limned and swoop in and out of time and each other's lives. It was a complete delight to discover ho...

from coppers

I was a little slow to warm to The Tsar of Love and Techno. It took me to the midpoint of the second story, about 70 pages, for the whole thing to start to click for me. Not that I didn't love the first story, I did, I just wasn't sure where the author was taking me. This is a stunning collection...

from msf59

"There was coherence in exiting by the same door through which you entered, bookending with order this senselessly churning existence." In the 1930s, a failed portrait artist, is given the task, by Soviet censors, to erase images, from photographs. He will blot out the faces, of all political dis...

from porch_reader

Marra's first novel, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena, was one of my favorite reads in 2014. Even though his follow-up, The Tsar of Love and Techno, is my first book of 2016, I wouldn't be surprised if it ended up on my best of 2016 list. The Tsar of Love and Techno begins in 1937 Leningrad. Ro...