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Title: A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
Subtitle: A Novel
Author: Anthony Marra
Narrator: Colette Whitaker
Format: Unabridged
Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
Language: English
Release date: 05-07-13
Publisher: Random House Audio
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1037 votes
Genres: Fiction, Literary
Publisher's Summary:
A resilient doctor risks everything to save the life of a hunted child, in this majestic debut about love, loss, and the unexpected ties that bind us together.
In his brilliant, haunting novel, Stegner Fellow and Whiting Award winner Anthony Marra transports us to a snow-covered village in Chechnya, where eight-year-old Havaa watches from the woods as Russian soldiers abduct her father in the middle of the night, accusing him of aiding Chechen rebels. Across the road their lifelong neighbor and family friend Akhmed has also been watching, fearing the worst when the soldiers set fire to Havaas house. But when he finds her hiding in the forest with a strange blue suitcase, he makes a decision that will forever change their lives. He will seek refuge at the abandoned hospital where the sole remaining doctor, Sonja Rabina, treats the wounded.
For the talented, tough-minded Sonja, the arrival of Akhmed and Havaa is an unwelcome surprise. Weary and overburdened, she has no desire to take on additional risk and responsibility. And she has a deeply personal reason for caution: Harboring these refugees could easily jeopardize the return of her missing sister. But over the course of five extraordinary days, Sonjas world will shift on its axis and reveal the intricate pattern of connections that weave together the pasts of these three unlikely companions and unexpectedly decides their fate. 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.
Critic Reviews:
A Constellation of Vital Phenomenais simply spectacular. Not since Everything is Illuminatedhave I read a first novel so ambitious and fully realized. If this is where Anthony Marra begins his career, I can't imagine how far he will go.
Ann Patchett, New York Times bestselling author of State of Wonder and Bel Canto
Remarkable and breathtaking, Anthony Marras A Constellation of Vital Phenomena is a spellbinding elegy for an overlooked land engulfed by an oft forgotten war. Set in the all-too-real Chechen conflict, Marra conjures fragile and heartfelt characters whose fates interrogate the very underpinnings of love and sacrifice.
Adam Johnson, Pulitzer Prizewinning author of The Orphan Masters Son
A complex debut[Marra writes] with elegant details about the physical and emotional destruction of occupation and war. Publishers Weekly (starred review)
[An] extraordinary first novel...Marra collapses time, slidingbetween 1996 and 2004 while also detailing events in a future yet to arrive, giving his searing novel aneerie, propheticaura. All of the characters are closely tied together in ways that Marra takes his time revealing, even as he beautifully renders the way we long to connect and the lengths we will go to endure. Booklist (starred review)
Marras debut novel places readers in Chechnya during its decade-long conflict with Russia and offers up an authentic, heartbreaking tale of intertwining relationships during wartime.As he shifts in time through the years of the two Chechen wars, Marra confidently weaves those plots together, and several more besides, giving each character a rich backstory that intersects, often years down the line, with the others.[T]he novels tone remains optimistic, and its characters retain vast depths of humanity (and even humor) in spite of their bleak circumstances.
