Overview
Este impactante y exquisito tour de force, a medio camino entre novela coral y colección de relatos, se extiende a través de un siglo, un continente y un reparto de personajes extraordinarios cuyas vidas se entrecruzan de manera en ocasiones cómica y desgarradora. Un censor soviético de los años treinta corrige meticulosamente fotografías oficiales en los búnkeres de Leningrado, perseguido por la imagen de una prima ballerina caída en desgracia. Un coro de mujeres cuenta sus historias y las de sus abuelas, antiguas prisioneras de un gulag, que fundaron su propio pueblo en Siberia. Dos hermanos comparten un amor feroz y protector en pleno derrumbamiento de la URSS; y un mercenario es hecho prisionero en un pozo de Chechenia junto con una casete de mezclas que podría contener el último mensaje de su familia. Con una prosa deslumbrante, un finísimo sentido del humor, ricos retratos de personajes y un profundo sentido de la Historia, El zar del amor y el tecno es una obra cautivadora de uno de los mejores nuevos talentos americanos.
This striking and exquisite tour de force, halfway between a choral novel and a short-story collection, spans a century, a continent, and a cast of extraordinary characters whose lives intersect in ways that are at times comic and heartbreaking. A Soviet censor in the 1930s meticulously retouches official photographs in the bunkers of Leningrad, haunted by the image of a disgraced ballerina cousin. A chorus of women recounts their own stories and those of their grandmothers, former gulag prisoners who founded their own village in Siberia. Two brothers share a fierce, protective love amid the collapse of the USSR; and a mercenary is captured in a Chechen pit alongside a mixtape that may contain his family’s final message. With dazzling prose, a razor-sharp sense of humor, rich character portraits, and a deep sense of History, The Tsar of Love and Techno is a captivating work by one of America’s finest new literary talents.
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