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The book of Anna : (Karenina's novel) / Carmen Boullosa ; translated by Samantha Schnee.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: Spanish Publisher: Minneapolis : Coffee House Press, 2020Edition: First English-language editionDescription: xi, 182 pages ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781566895774
Uniform titles:
  • Libro de Ana. English
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Online version:: The book of AnnaDDC classification:
  • 863/.64 23
LOC classification:
  • PQ7298.12.O76 L4313 2020
Summary: "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"-- Provided by publisher.
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single unit book single unit book HAC Library - Holdings of the American Academy in Berlin HAC – 1st floor – Library Room – Open Stacks F (Affiliated) F:PQ7298.12.O76 L4313 2020 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available Paperback 2024-0108

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"-- Provided by publisher.

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