num_pages: 200
description: Saint Petersburg 1905. Behind the gates of the Karenin Palace Sergei son of Anna Karenina meets Tolstoy in his dreams and finds reminders of his mother everywhere: the vivid portrait that the tsar intends to acquire and the opium-infused manuscripts Anna wrote just before her death which open a trapdoor to a wild feminist fairy tale. Across the city Clementine an anarchist seamstress and Father Gapon the charismatic leader of the proletariat plan protests that embroil the downstairs members of the Karenin household in their plots and tip the country ever closer to revolution. Boullosa tells a polyphonic and subversive tale of the Russian revolution through the lens of Tolstoy's most beloved work.
language: English
title: The Book of Anna
publisher: Coffee House Press