{"product_id":"the-book-of-anna-paperback","title":"The Book of Anna - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCarmen Boullosa\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eSamantha Schnee\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSaint 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, plan protests that embroil the downstairs members of the Karenin household in their plots and tip the country ever closer to revolution. Boullosa tells a polyphonic and subversive tale of the Russian revolution through the lens of Tolstoy's most beloved work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eCarmen Boullosa--a Cullman Center, a Guggenheim, a Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, and a Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes Fellow--was born in Mexico City in 1954. She's a poet, playwright, essayist, novelist, and artist, and has been a professor at New York University, Columbia University, City College--City University of New York, Georgetown, and other institutions. She's now at Macaulay Honors College--City University of New York. The New York Public Library acquired her papers and artist books. More than a dozen books and over ninety dissertations have been written about her work. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSamantha Schnee is the founding editor of \u003cem\u003eWords Without Borders, \u003c\/em\u003e dedicated to publishing the world's best literature translated into English. Her translation of Boullosa's \u003cem\u003eTexas: The Great Theft\u003c\/em\u003e was longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award and shortlisted for the PEN America Translation Prize. She won the Gulf Coast Prize in Translation for her work on Boullosa's \u003cem\u003eEl complot de los Románticos.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 200\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8.2 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 14, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51771475656992,"sku":"9781566895774","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/994ff020d6603ab66832e00ba707b1ee.webp?v=1780387198","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-book-of-anna-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}