TY  - BOOK
AU  - Boullosa,Carmen
AU  - Schnee,Samantha
TI  - The book of Anna: (Karenina's novel) 
SN  - 9781566895774
AV  - PQ7298.12.O76 L4313 2020
U1  - 863/.64 23
PY  - 2020///
CY  - Minneapolis
PB  - Coffee House Press
KW  - Soviet Union
KW  - History
KW  - Revolution, 1917-1921
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Fellow
KW  - Dirk Ippen Fellow
KW  - Class of Spring 2024
KW  - Alternative histories (Fiction)
KW  - gsafd
N1  - First published in Spanish as El libro de Ana (Ediciones Siruela and Alfaguara, 2016)
N2  - "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"--
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