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Boullosa, Carmen,

The book of Anna : (Karenina's novel) / Carmen Boullosa ; translated by Samantha Schnee. - First English-language edition. - xi, 182 pages ; 21 cm

First published in Spanish as El libro de Ana (Ediciones Siruela and Alfaguara, 2016)

"Russia, 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: in the almost-living portrait the Tsar intends to acquire and the opium-infused manuscripts she wrote just before her death, one of which opens a trapdoor to a wild feminist fairytale. Across the city, Clementine, an anarchist seamstress, and Father Gapón, the charismatic leader of the proletariat, tip the country ever closer to revolution. Boullosa lifts the voices of coachmen, sailors, maids, and seamstresses in this playful, polyphonic, and subversive revision of the Russian revolution, told through the lens of Tolstoy's most beloved work"--

ISBN: 9781566895774

LCCN: 2019028600

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Soviet Union--History--Revolution, 1917-1921--Fiction.

Subjects--Index Terms: Fellow Dirk Ippen Fellow Class of Spring 2024

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Alternative histories (Fiction)

LC Class. No.: PQ7298.12.O76 / L4313 2020

Dewey Class. No.: 863/.64