Anthony Marra
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"When we first meet Maria Lagana, she's rewriting scripts at Mercury Pictures, a failing Hollywood studio known for its schlock. Maria's job is to re-craft dialogue and action to circumvent the censors, a skill she's mysteriously adept at. Born in Italy, as a teenager Maria witnessed Mussolini's censors arrest her father, an event that will destroy her family and burden Maria with questions of guilt and responsibility she will carry with her throughout...
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English
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In a snow-covered village in Chechnya, eight-year-old Havaa watches as her father is abducted by Russian soldiers. Their neighbor Akhmed takes Havaa to the bombed-out hospital of Sonja Rabina. Sonja has no desire to take on more responsibility and risk -- there's someone of her own whose return she doesn't want to jeopardize. But over the course of five extraordinary days, Sonja's world will shift on its axis.
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Español
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En un pequeño pueblo de Chechenia, Havaa, de ocho años, observa desde el
bosque cómo los soldados rusos secuestran a su padre en mitad de la noche y después
prenden fuego a su casa. Cuando Akhmed, su vecino de toda la vida, encuentra a
Havaa escondida entre los árboles con una extraña maleta azul, toma una decisión que
cambiará sus vidas para siempre. Buscará refugio en el hospital semiabandonado de la ciudad vecina, donde la única doctora...
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Español
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Este impactante y exquisito tour de force, a medio camino entre novela coral y colección de relatos, se extiende a través de un siglo, un continente y un reparto de personajes extraordinarios cuyas vidas se entrecruzan de manera en ocasiones cómica y desgarradora.
Un censor soviético de los años treinta corrige meticulosamente fotografías oficiales en los búnkeres de Leningrado, perseguido por la imagen de una prima ballerina caída en desgracia....
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Series
Lan xiao shuo volume 203
Publisher
Shi bao wen hua chu ban qi ye gu fen you xian gong si
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
中文
