num_pages: 332
description: From the New York Times bestselling author of A Constellation of Vital Phenomenadazzling poignant and lyrical interwoven stories about family sacrifice the legacy of war and the redemptive power of art.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.The leopard --Granddaughters --The Grozny Tourist Bureau --A prisoner of the Caucasus --The tsar of love and techno --Wolf of White Forest --Palace of the people --A temporary exhibition --The end
language: English
title: The Tsar of Love and Techno
publisher: Hogarth