A constellation of vital phenomena movie9/24/2023 ![]() a lover not a fighter, a prose writer who resembles the Joseph Heller of Catch-22 and the Jonathan Safran Foer of Everything Is Illuminated.” ![]() “ A Constellation of Vital Phenomena is ambitious and intellectually restless…. Madison Smartt Bell, New York Times Book Review “Extraordinary….a 21st century War and Peace….Marra seems to derive his astral calm in the face of catastrophe directly from Tolstoy.” At the risk of raising your expectations too high, I have to say you simply must read this book.” “A flash in the heavens that makes you look up and believe in miracles….Here, in fresh, graceful prose, is a profound story that dares to be as tender as it is ghastly, a story about desperate lives in a remote land that will quickly seem impossibly close and important….I haven’t been so overwhelmed by a novel in years. New York Magazine * Chicago Tribune * Kansas City Star * GQ * NPR * Christian Science Monitor * San Francisco Chronicle * Cleveland Plain Dealer Named one of the Best Books of the Year by: Though Sonja protests that her hospital is not an orphanage, Akhmed convinces her to keep Havaa for a trial, and over the course of five extraordinary days, Sonja’s world will shift on its axis and reveal the intricate pattern of connections that weaves together the pasts of these three unlikely companions and unexpectedly decides their fate.Ī New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the YearĪ Washington Post Top 10 Book of the Yearīarnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers WinnerĪ Publisher’s Weekly Top 10 Books of the YearĪ Library Journal Top 10 Book of the Year Akhmed knows getting involved means risking his life, and there is no safe place to hide a child in a village where informers will do anything for a loaf of bread, but for reasons of his own, he sneaks her through the forest to the one place he thinks she might be safe: an abandoned hospital where the sole remaining doctor, Sonja Rabina, treats the wounded. ![]() “On the morning after the Feds burned down her house and took her father, Havaa woke from dreams of sea anemones.” Havaa, eight years old, hides in the woods and watches the blaze until her neighbor, Akhmed, discovers her sitting in the snow. Two doctors risk everything to save the life of a hunted child in this majestic debut about love, loss, and the unexpected ties that bind us together. a lover not a fighter, a prose writer who resembles the Joseph Heller of Catch-22 and the Jonathan Safran Foer of Everything Is Illuminated.” -Dwight Garner, New York TimesĪ National Book Awards Longlist SelectionĪ New York Times and Washington Post bestsellerĪ story of the transcendent power of love in wartime, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena is a work of sweeping breadth, profound compassion, and lasting significance. Marra seems to derive his astral calm in the face of catastrophe directly from Tolstoy.” -Madison Smartt Bell, New York Times Book Review At the risk of raising your expectations too high, I have to say you simply must read this book.” -Ron Charles, Washington Post I haven’t been so overwhelmed by a novel in years. “Here, in fresh, graceful prose, is a profound story that dares to be as tender as it is ghastly, a story about desperate lives in a remote land that will quickly seem impossibly close and important. Praise for A Constellation of Vital Phenomena NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST AND ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE’S JOHN LEONARD AWARD.Now with Extra Libris material, including a reader’s guide and bonus content from the author. A story of the transcendent power of love in wartime, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena is a work of sweeping breadth, profound compassion, and lasting significance. But over the course of five extraordinary days, Sonja’s world will shift on its axis and reveal the intricate pattern of connections that weaves together the pasts of these three unlikely companions and unexpectedly decides their fate. Weary and overburdened, she has no desire to take on additional risk and responsibility. He will seek refuge at the abandoned hospital where the sole remaining doctor, Sonja Rabina, treats the wounded.įor Sonja, the arrival of Akhmed and Havaa is an unwelcome surprise. When their lifelong neighbor Akhmed finds Havaa hiding in the forest with a strange blue suitcase, he makes a decision that will forever change their lives. In a small rural village in Chechnya, eight-year-old Havaa watches from the woods as Russian soldiers abduct her father in the middle of the night and then set fire to her home.
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