Like many before her, Maria Lagana has come to Hollywood to outrun her past. Born in Rome, where every Sunday her father took her to the cinema instead of church, Maria immigrates with her mother to Los Angeles after a childhood transgression leads to her father's arrest. Fifteen years later, on the eve of America's entry into World War II, Maria is an associate producer at Mercury Pictures, trying to keep her personal and professional lives from falling apart. Her mother won't speak to her. Her boss, a man of many toupees, has been summoned to Washington by congressional investigators. Her boyfriend, a virtuoso Chinese American actor, can't escape the studio's narrow typecasting. And the studio itself, Maria's only home in exile, teeters on the verge of bankruptcy. Over the coming months, as the bright lights go dark across Los Angeles, Mercury Pictures becomes a nexus of European emigres: modernist poets trying their luck as B-movie screenwriters, once-celebrated architects becoming scale-model miniaturists, and refugee actors finding work playing the very villains they fled. While the world descends into war, Maria rises through a maze of conflicting politics, divided loyalties, and jockeying ambitions. But when the arrival of a stranger from her father's past threatens Maria's carefully constructed facade, she must finally confront her father's fate-and her own
Anthony Marra Ordre des livres (chronologique)
Anthony Marra est célébré pour sa voix littéraire captivante, qui explore souvent la résilience de l'esprit humain face à une profonde adversité. Son œuvre se caractérise par un style riche et évocateur qui aborde les thèmes de la perte, de la connexion et de la force durable trouvée dans les circonstances les plus difficiles. Marra tisse magistralement des récits complexes qui résonnent avec une profonde vérité émotionnelle et une profondeur intellectuelle. Les lecteurs sont attirés par sa capacité à créer des histoires qui invitent à la réflexion et sont profondément émouvantes.
The Tsar of Love and Techno
- 384pages
- 14 heures de lecture
"Beginning in the tunnels beneath Leningrad and ending at the edge of the solar system, The Tsar of love and techno stretches across a century, a continent, and a striking cast of characters tied together by an obscure 19th century Russan painting. Alternately tragic and comic, and richly profound throughout." -- back cover
Constellation of Vital Phenomena. Die niedrigen Himmel, englische Ausgabe
- 432pages
- 16 heures de lecture
*** Granta Best of Young American Novelists 2017 ***In a snow-covered village in Chechnya, eight-year-old Havaa watches from the woods as her father is abducted in the middle of the night by Russian soldiers.
A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
- 416pages
- 15 heures de lecture
Stegner Fellow, Iowa MFA, and winner of "The Atlantic"'s Student Writing Contest, Marra has written a brilliant debut novel that brings to life an abandoned hospital where a tough-minded doctor decides to harbor a hunted young girl, with powerful consequences.