Praise for"The Tsar of Love and Techno" Remarkable Marra is a gifted writer with the energy and the ambition to explore the lives of characters whose experiences and whose psyches might seem, until we read his work, so distant from our own. Reading his work is like watching the restoration the reappearance, on the page of those whom history has erased. " "Francine Prose, "Washington Post" Dazzling with its multiple narratives and recurring characters it certainly recalls both Jennifer Egan's "A Visit From the Goon Squad" (a novel) and Elizabeth Strout's "Olive Kitteridge"(short stories). By the time you reach Marra's astonishing final story about Kolya, "The End" set, a dateline tells us, in "Outer Space, Year Unknown" the book has achieved a heart-rending cumulative power. Tom Beer, "Newsday" The Tsar of Love and Techno is inventively structured, emotionally resonant, superbly rendered. Jane Ciabattari, BBC.com "Private acts of dissidence (a smuggled mix tape, say) become heroic in Anthony Marra's era-spanning portrait of the USSR."" "Megan O'Grady, " Vogue" "Some books are love at first read, and this is one of them. Anthony Marra, author of"A Constellation of Vital Phenomena, "delivers his first collection of intimately tied stories (it kind of reads as a novel, actually), arranged into Side A and B and Intermission. With language as precise as a razor blade, "Tsar"takes us throughout Russia from 1937 to the present with a connected group of characters who, through their explosive escapades, demonstrate the peculiarities and nuances of life. It has everything: humor, action, suspense, drama I'm going to go ahead and call it brilliant." Meredith Turits, Bustle.com "Marra, in between bursts of acidic humor, summons the terror, pollutedlandscapes, and diminished hopes of generations of Russians in a tragic and haunting collection."" Booklist "(starred) "With generosity of spirit and a surprising dash of humor, these artfully woven narratives coalesce into a majestic whole."" Library Journal"(starred) Powerful strikingly reimagines a nearly a century of changes in Russia. [T]he book s brilliance and humor are laced with the somber feeling that the country is allergic to evolution." " Kirkus Reviews"(starred) As in his acclaimed novel, Marra finds in Chechnya an inspiration for his uniquely funny, tragic, bizarre, and memorable fiction. " Publishers Weekly"(starred) "Love and betrayal reverberate through these nine deftly linked stories... With this collection, Marra has created a stunning portrait of a place and its indelible inhabitants." Dawn Raffel, "More" We know we are in the realm of fiction, but Marra makes it all feel viscerally real. He has mined modern Russian history for all it is worth to create a masterful novel. " Russian Life Magazine" Treat yourself to these wise works of art set in Siberia, the USSR, and the heart. " Refinery29" Selected praise and accolades for Anthony Marra's"A Constellation of Vital Phenomena" "ANew York TimesBook Review Notable Book of the Year New York Times"Bestseller National Book Award Longlist Selection A"Washington Post"Top 10 Book of the Year "Washington Post"Bestseller NPR Bestseller Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Winner An ALA Notable Book of the Year A #1 Indie Pick An Amazon.com Best Book of the Year A"Publisher's Weekly"Top 10 Books of the Year A"Kirkus Reviews"Best Book of the Year A"Library Journal"Top 10 Book of the Year NBCC John Leonard Prize Winner Named one of the Best Books of the Year by: "New York"Magazine *"Chicago Tribune * Kansas City Star"*"GQ * NPR * Christian Science Monitor * San Francisco Chronicle * Cleveland Plain Dealer" "Brilliant.""" "New York Times" A flash in the heavens that makes you look up and believe in miracles....Here, in fresh, graceful prose, is a profound story that dares to be as tender as it is ghastly, a story about desperate lives in a remote land that will quickly seem impossibly close and important....I haven t been so overwhelmed by a novel in years. At the risk of raising your expectations too high, I have to say you simply must read this book. Ron Charles, "Washington Post" Extraordinary....a 21st century War and Peace....Marra seems to derive his astral calm in the face of catastrophe directly from Tolstoy. Madison Smartt Bell, "New York Times Book Review" "A Constellation of Vital Phenomena"is ambitious and intellectually restless....[Marra is] a lover not a fighter, a prose writer who resembles the Joseph Heller of"Catch-22"and the Jonathan Safran Foer of"Everything Is Illuminated." Dwight Garner, "New York Times" Over and over again, this is an examination of the ways in which many broken pieces come together to make a new whole. In exquisite imagery, Marra tends carefully to the twisted strands of grace and tragedy....Everything in"A Constellation of Vital Phenomena."..is dignified with a hoping, aching heartbeat. Ramona Ausubel, "San Francisco Chronicle""

ANTHONY MARRAis the author of"A Constellation of Vital Phenomena"(2013), which won the National Book Critics Circle s inaugural John Leonard Prize, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in fiction, the Barnes and Noble Discover Award, and appeared on over twenty year-end lists. Marra s novel was a National Book Award long list selection as well as a finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and France s Prix Medicis. He received an MFA from the Iowa Writers Workshop and was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, where he teaches as the Jones Lecturer in Fiction. He has lived and studied in Eastern Europe, and now resides in Oakland, California. His story collection, "The Tsar of Love and Techno," is forthcoming from Hogarth (Fall 2015).Visit http: //anthonymarra.net/"