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Энтони Марра

Anthony Marra

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Энтони Марра — новинки

  • Mercury Pictures Presents Anthony Marra
    ISBN: 978-0451495204
    Год издания: 2022
    Издательство: Hogarth
    Язык: Английский
    Like many before her, Maria Lagana has come to Hollywood to outrun her past. Born in Rome, where every Sunday her father took her to the cinema instead of church, Maria immigrates with her mother to Los Angeles after a childhood transgression leads to her father’s arrest.

    Fifteen years later, on the eve of America’s entry into World War II, Maria is an associate producer at Mercury Pictures, trying to keep her personal and professional lives from falling apart. Her mother won’t speak to her. Her boss, a man of many toupees, has been summoned to Washington by congressional investigators. Her boyfriend, a virtuoso Chinese American actor, can’t escape the studio’s narrow typecasting. And the studio itself, Maria’s only home in exile, teeters on the verge of bankruptcy.

    Over the coming months, as the bright lights go dark across Los Angeles, Mercury Pictures becomes a nexus of European émigrés: modernist poets trying their luck as B-movie screenwriters, once-celebrated architects becoming scale-model miniaturists, and refugee actors finding work playing the very villains they fled. While the world descends into war, Maria rises through a maze of conflicting politics, divided loyalties, and jockeying ambitions. But when the arrival of a stranger from her father’s past threatens Maria’s carefully constructed facade, she must finally confront her father’s fate—and her own.

    Written with intelligence, wit, and an exhilarating sense of possibility, Mercury Pictures Presents spans many moods and tones, from the heartbreaking to the ecstatic. It is a love letter to life’s bit players, a panorama of an era that casts a long shadow over our own, and a tour de force by a novelist whose work The Washington Post calls “a flash in the heavens that makes you look up and believe in miracles.”
  • A Constellation of Vital Phenomena Энтони Марра
    ISBN: 9780099575573
    Год издания: 2022
    Издательство: Vintage Books
    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.
  • Une constellation de phénomènes vitaux Энтони Марра
    ISBN: 2253066095
    Год издания: 2016
    Издательство: Livre De Poche
    Язык: Французский
    En 2004, dans un village de Tchétchénie, Havaa, une fillette de huit ans, cachée dans les bois, voit des soldats russes emmener son père et brûler sa maison. Akhmed, voisin et ami de sa famille, observe lui aussi la scène, redoutant le pire. Lorsqu’il retrouve Havaa, il décide de la mettre à l’abri dans un hôpital abandonné où il ne reste qu’une chirurgienne russe épuisée, Sonja, pour soigner les blessés. Au cours de cinq jours extraordinaires, le monde de Sonja, d’Akhmed et de Havaa bascule.
    Un premier roman majestueux sur l’amour en temps de guerre, qui révèle l’histoire d’un pays et d’un peuple martyr.
  • The Tsar of Love and Techno: Stories Энтони Марра
    ISBN: 978-0770436438
    Год издания: 2015
    Издательство: Hogarth
    Язык: Английский
    This stunning, exquisitely written collection introduces a cast of remarkable characters whose lives intersect in ways both life-affirming and heartbreaking. A 1930s Soviet censor painstakingly corrects offending photographs, deep underneath Leningrad, bewitched by the image of a disgraced prima ballerina. A chorus of women recount their stories and those of their grandmothers, former gulag prisoners who settled their Siberian mining town. Two pairs of brothers share a fierce, protective love. Young men across the former USSR face violence at home and in the military. And great sacrifices are made in the name of an oil landscape unremarkable except for the almost incomprehensibly peaceful past it depicts.

    In stunning prose, with rich character portraits and a sense of history reverberating into the present, "The Tsar of Love and Techno" is a captivating work from one of our greatest new talents.
  • A Constellation Of Vital Phenomena Энтони Марра
    ISBN: 1410462048, 9781410462046
    Год издания: 2013
    Издательство: Thorndike Press
    Язык: Английский
    In A Constellation of Vital Phenomena, Anthony Marra takes us to snow-covered Chechnya during the Second Chechen War. The novel, a remarkable decade-spanning debut, opens with eight-year-old Havaa looking on as her father is dragged off by Russian soldiers for a crime he did not commit. The soldiers set fire to Havaa's home, and next-door neighbor Akhmed attempts to hide her at nearby hospital. Sonya, the doctor who runs the facility, is hesitant to harbor Havaa, as the child invites unnecessary risk to her barely functioning hospital, but both she and Akhmed realize that Havaa represents something greater than a single life: she is the key to maintaining humanity in an ethnic conflict that is absurd and unjust. "There are things a person shouldn't understand," Akhmed says. "There are things a person has a moral duty never to understand." But by the end of Vital Phenomena, we do understand--with deeply emotional characters and gripping depiction of wartorn Chechnya, Marra makes us understand. --Kevin Nguyen