A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
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A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER .LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD . A searing debut about the transcendent power of love in wartime, hailed as"an absolute masterpiece" (Sarah Jessica Parker, Entertainment Weekly)-from the renowned author of Mercury Pictures Presents"Extraordinary . . . a twenty-first century War and Peace."-The New York Times Book Review
NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE JOHN LEONARD AWARD WINNER . ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR- The Washington Post, Publishers Weekly, Library Journal
In the final days of December2004,in a small rural village in Chechnya, eight-year-old Havaa hides in the woods when her father is abducted by Russian forces. Fearing for her life, she flees with their neighbor Akhmed-a failed physician-to the bombed-out hospital, where Sonja, the one remaining doctor, treats a steady stream of wounded rebels and refugees and mourns her missing sister. Over the course of five dramatic days, Akhmed and Sonja reach back into their pasts to unravel the intricate mystery of coincidence, betrayal, and forgiveness that unexpectedly binds them and decides their fate.
A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR- The New York Times Book Review, Chicago Tribune, NPR, Kansas City Star, San Francisco Chronicle, The Christian Science Monitor, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Kirkus Reviews
ANTHONY MARRA is the author of A Constellation of Vital Phenomena (2013), which received the inaugural John Leonard Prize from the National Book Critics Circle, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in fiction, & the Barnes and Noble Discover Award, as well as being included on over twenty year-end lists. Marra's novel was a longlist selection for the National Book Award, as well as a finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the Prix MEdicis in France. He graduated from the Iowa Writers' Workshop with an MFA and was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, where he now serves as the Jones Lecturer in Fiction. He studied and lived in Eastern Europe before settling in Oakland, California.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780770436421 |
| ISBN 10 | 0770436420 |
| Title | A Constellation of Vital Phenomena |
| Author | Anthony Marra |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Random House USA Inc |
| Year published | 2014-02-04 |
| Number of pages | 416 |
| Prizes | Winner of Anisfield-Wolf Book Award 2014, Winner of Athens Prize for Literature 2014, Winner of Carla Furstenberg Cohen Fiction Award 2014, Winner of Commonwealth Club of California Book Award 2013, Winner of Grand Prix des Lectrices de ELLE 2015, Winner of Indies Choice Award 2014, Winner of National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize 2014, Winner of Northern California Independent Booksellers Association Award 2014, Short-listed for Center for Fiction First Novel Prize 2013, Short-listed for Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Fiction 2014 |
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