Quotes by Anthony Marra. “We wear clothes, and speak, and create civilizations, and believe we are more than wolves. But inside us there is a word we cannot pronounce and that is who we are.”. “Life: a constellation of vital phenomena—organization, irritability, /5. Anthony Marra’s debut novel (published in ) is set in Chechnya, the rebellious Caucasus republic that broke away from Russia in , was in short order mired in two wars thereafter, and ultimately lost its independence and was re-incorporated into Russia as a semi-autonomous “federal subject” state. Marra does not ease us into his story, but propels us headlong into it; it is , and eight-year-old . · Anthony Marra’s extraordinary first novel, “A Constellation of Vital Phenomena,” opens with a disappearance typical of postmodern warfare, cobbled to Estimated Reading Time: 8 mins.
Anthony Marra is an American writer, whose debut novel A Constellation of Vital Phenomena was published in Marra attended the Landon School in high school, and he would go on to graduate from the University of Southern California with a BA and the Iowa Writers Workshop with an MFA. He is Stegner Fel-low at Stanford University. Anthony Marra's first novel, "A Constellation of Vital Phenomena," belongs to the second category. It's a slow burn. Mr. Marra's book is set in Chechnya, the disputed Muslim territory in. A Constellation of Vital Phenomena is the debut novel by American author Anthony Marra. The story, told from an omniscient point of view, begins one morning in in the small Chechen village of Eldár. The night before, a villager named Dokka was captured and taken by Federalist soldiers, and his house was burned to the ground.
ANTHONY MARRA is the author of A Constellation of Vital Phenomena (), which won the National Book Critics Circle’s inaugural John Leonard Prize, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in fiction, the Barnes and Noble Discover Award, and appeared on over twenty year-end lists. Marra’s novel was a National Book Award long list selection as well as a finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and France’s Prix Medicis. Quotes by Anthony Marra. “We wear clothes, and speak, and create civilizations, and believe we are more than wolves. But inside us there is a word we cannot pronounce and that is who we are.”. “Life: a constellation of vital phenomena—organization, irritability, movement, growth, reproduction, adaptation.”. Anthony Marra’s extraordinary first novel, “A Constellation of Vital Phenomena,” opens with a disappearance typical of postmodern warfare, cobbled to an image completely alien to it: “On.
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