The Tsar Of Love And Techno

Synopsis

The Tsar Of Love And Techno Begins In 1930s Leningrad, Where A Failed Portrait Artist Employed By Soviet Censors Must Erase Political Dissenters From Official Images And Artworks. One Day, He Receives An Antique Painting Of A Dacha Inside A Box Of Images Due To Be Altered. The Mystery Behind This Painting Threads Together The Stories That Follow, Which Take Us Through A Century And Introduce A Cast Of Characters Including A Siberian Beauty Queen, A Young Soldier In The Battlefields Of Chechnya, The Head Of The Grozny Tourist Bureau, A Ballerina Performing For The Camp Director Of A Gulag And Many Others. Praise For A Constellation Of Vital Phenomena 'storytelling Of Magical Purity, Illuminated By Hope... Marra Is A Magnificent Writer' The Times 'extraordinary... A 21st-century War And Peace' New York Times Book Review 'an Absolute Masterpiece' Sarah Jessica Parker, Entertainment Weekly