Anthony Marra, highly praised for his 2013 novel "A Constellation of Vital Phenomena," is back with this collection of nine interconnected stories. The stories span 75 years, beginning in 1937, and move from Chechnya to Siberia. Marra manages to be humorous even as he uses fiction to unroll a poignant, probbing, and sometimes disturbing panorama of Russian and Soviet history and society. You can read a full review of 'The Tsar of Love and Techno' here.
