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“From an early age I learned… that stories are how we understand one another, how we preserve the past, and how we make meaning from the chaos of our lives.”

—Anthony Marra

New York Times bestselling author Anthony Marra’s remarkable fiction has been translated into over 20 languages and details the grim absurdity of war, the human capacity for kindness in extreme circumstances, and the troubling line between art and artifice. With wit, compassion, and gravitas, his work—set in Russia, the Soviet Republics, and now Hollywood—chronicles the lives of ordinary people attempting to salvage what they have lost.

A Constellation of Vital Phenomena opens in war-torn Chechnya, where a man and an eight-year-old girl seek refuge in a ramshackle hospital after the girl’s father is abducted by Russian soldiers. For Sonja, the hospital’s sole remaining surgeon, the arrival of these two strangers is an unwelcome surprise. But over the course of five days, Sonja’s world will shift on its axis and reveal the intricate pattern of connections that weaves together the pasts of these three

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Anthony Marra Takes a Walk of Fame

When Anthony Marra began working on his new novel, Mercury Pictures Presents(Hogarth, Aug.), he assumed it would go fairly quickly. His fame-bringing debut, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena, and his follow-up story collection, The Tsar of Love and Techno, had each taken him less than two years to write.

“When I was starting this in 2014, I thought to myself, I’ll have this finished while Obama’s still in office,” Marra says via Zoom from his home in New Haven, Conn. His hopefulness was of a piece with the times.

He would end up, as he puts it, “knocking my head against the wall” trying to write Mercury Pictures Presents for years. “I felt like I couldn’t get my teeth into it,” he recalls. “Nothing was really clicking.” His writer’s block was so bad that he considered taking the LSAT.

When the pandemic hit, it gave Marra two sources of motivation. The first was the accountability that comes when two spouses are both working from

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Anthony Marra Biography

Anthony Marra is the New York Times bestselling author of The Tsar of Love and Techno and A Constellation of Vital Phenomena, winner of the National Book Critics Circle's John Leonard Prize and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, and longlisted for the National Book Award.

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