A constellation of vital phenomena
Subtitle: a novel
By: Anthony Marra
Publisher: Random House Canada
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780307362629
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Fiction; History; Romans, nouvelles; Histoire
Description: A haunting novel set in a nearly abandoned hospital in war-torn Chechnya that is both intimate and ambitious in scope. Eight-year-old Havaa, Akhmed, the neighbour who rescues her after her father's disappearance, and Sonia, the doctor who shelters her over 5 dramatic days in December 2004, must all reach back into their pasts to unravel the intricate mystery of coincidence, betrayal and forgiveness which unexpectedly binds them and decides their fate. In his bold debut, Anthony Marra proves that sometimes fiction can tell us the truth of the world far better, and far more powerfully, than any news story.
Notes: "Published in 2013 by Random House Canada, a division of Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto, and simultaneously in the United States of America by Hogarth, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York."--Title page verso.

Issued also in electronic format.