The Book of Anna

by Carmen Boullosa

Book Overview

Saint Petersburg, 1905. Behind the gates of the Karenin Palace, Sergei, son of Anna Karenina, meets Tolstoy in his dreams and finds reminders of his mother everywhere: the vivid portrait that the tsar intends to acquire and the opium-infused manuscripts Anna wrote just before her death, which open a trapdoor to a wild feminist fairy tale. Across the city, Clementine, an anarchist seamstress, and Father Gapon, the charismatic leader of the proletariat,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1566895774
• ISBN13: 9781566895774
• Release Date: April 2020
• Publisher: Coffee House Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.2"