The book of Anna : (Karenina's novel) /
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 open...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Minneapolis :
Coffee House Press,
[2020]
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| Edition: | First English-language edition. |
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| 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 fairy tale. 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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| Item Description: | First published in Spanish as El libro de Ana (Ediciones Siruela and Alfaguara, 2016). |
| Physical Description: | xi, 182 pages ; 21 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9781566895774 |