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A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
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Published:
6 February, 2014
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Description
*** Granta Best of Young American Novelists 2017 ***
In a snow-covered village in Chechnya, eight-year-old Havaa watches from the woods as her father is abducted in the middle of the night by Russian soldiers. Their life-long friend and neighbour, Akhmed, has also been watching, and when he finds Havaa he knows of only one person who might be able to help.
For tough-minded doctor Sonja Rabina, it’s just another day of trying to keep her bombed-out, abandoned hospital going. When Akhmed arrives with Havaa, asking Sonja for shelter, she has no idea who the pair are. But over the course of five extraordinary days, Sonja’s world will shift on its axis, revealing the intricate pattern of connections that binds these three unlikely companions together and unexpectedly decides their fate.
'A Constellation of Vital Phenomena is simply spectacular' Ann Patchett
Prizes
Winner of Barnes and Noble Discover Award for Fiction 2014 (UK),Short-listed for Pen/ Robert W Bingham Prize 2014 (UK),Long-listed for I.M.P.A.C. Dublin Award 2015 (UK)
More Details
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9780099575573 |
| ISBN10 | 0099575574 |
| Number Of Pages | 432 |
| Item Weight | 298 g |
| Product Dimensions | 129 x 198 x 26 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Vintage Publishing |
| Format | paperback |
Media Reviews
A Constellation of Vital Phenomena is simply spectacular. Not since Everything is Illuminated have I read a first novel so ambitious and fully realized. If this is where Anthony Marra begins his career, I can't imagine how far he will go * Ann Patchett *
Storytelling of magical purity, illuminated by hope... Marra is a magnificent writer -- Vanora Bennett * The Times *
An extraordinary first novel... A 21st-century War and Peace * New York Times *
Both heart-wrenching and uplifting, a stunning, intricately plotted, brilliantly written, tour-de-force of a novel that burns into the memory * Choice *
A powerful tale... rivals anything Michael Ondaatje has written in its emotional force -- John Freeman * Boston Globe *
50 Best Spring Reads * Independent *
A book of violence and beauty, and the undisputed arrival of a major new talent * Globe and Mail, Canada *
Remarkable and breathtaking, Anthony Marra’s A Constellation of Vital Phenomena is a spellbinding elegy for an overlooked land engulfed by an oft forgotten war. Set in the all-too-real Chechen conflict, Marra conjures fragile and heartfelt characters whose fates interrogate the very underpinnings of love and sacrifice * Adam Johnson, New York Times bestselling and Pulitzer Prizewinning author of The Orphan Master’s Son *
Powerful, convincing, beautifully realized -- it's hard to believe that A Constellation of Vital Phenomena is a first novel. Anthony Marra is a writer to watch and savor * TC Boyle *
Anthony Marra’s novel, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena, is both devastating and transcendent. The story of eight people (and a nation) navigating two brutal wars, it’s a novel of loyalty and sacrifice and enduring love. You’ll finish it transformed * Maile Meloy, author of Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It *
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Author's Bio
Anthony Marra's first novel was A Constellation of Vital Phenomena (2013), which won an array of prizes including the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Prize, the Barnes and Noble Fiction Discover Award, the Grand Prix des Lectrices de Elle and the Athens Prize for Literature, and appeared on more than twenty Books of the Year lists. This was followed by The Tsar of Love and Techno. A Granta Best of Young American Novelists 2017, a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop,a Guggenheim Fellow and Whiting Award recipient, Marra lives in Oakland, California, and teaches at Stanford University. Visit http://anthonymarra.net/.