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. 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. “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. 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. 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.
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Anthony Marra
Anthony Marra ganhou o Pushcart Prize, o Narrative Prize (ambos em 2010) e o Whiting Award (2012). Em 2014 recebeu o prêmio John Leonard oferecido pelo National Book Critics Circle, além de ter sido finalista em 2013 do National Book Award e do Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize. Marra tem um MFA do Iowa Writers’ Workshop e recebeu uma bolsa Stegner da Universidade de Stanford, onde é professor. Viveu e estudou no Leste Europeu e atualmente reside em Oakland, Califórnia.
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