{"product_id":"the-tsar-of-love-and-techno","title":"The Tsar of Love and Techno","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Tsar of Love and Techno\u003c\/i\u003e begins in 1930s Leningrad, where a failed portrait artist is tasked by Soviet censors to erase political dissenters from official images and artworks. One day, he receives an antique painting of a dacha inside a box of images meant to be altered. The mystery behind this painting reverberates through the stories that follow, which take us through a century as they thread together a cast of characters including a Siberian beauty queen, a young soldier in the battlefields of Chechnya, the Head of the Grozny Tourist Bureau, a ballerina performing for the camp director of a gulag and many others.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eA Constellation of Vital Phenomena\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'Storytelling of magical purity, illuminated by hope... Marra is a magnificent writer' \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'Extraordinary... a 21st-century \u003ci\u003eWar and Peace\u003c\/i\u003e' \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 'An absolute masterpiece' \u003cb\u003eSarah Jessica Parker,\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eMarra is the winner of\u003c\/b\u003e: the National Book Critics Circle's John Leonard Prize, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, the Barnes and Noble Fiction Discover Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Pushcart Prize, the Whiting Writers' Award, the Berlin Prize, the Grand Prix des Lectrices de Elle, the Athens Prize for Literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"sb-details\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Hogarth\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9781781090480\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hogarth","offers":[{"title":"Standard Secondhand — £4.64","offer_id":47916891635889,"sku":"SB-1781090483-C3","price":4.64,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/2669\/5345\/files\/1781090483.jpg?v=1789237969","url":"https:\/\/sellbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-tsar-of-love-and-techno","provider":"Sell Books .co.uk","version":"1.0","type":"link"}