A Constellation Of Vital Phenomena

In A Constellation of Vital Phenomena, Anthony Marra takes us to snow-covered Chechnya during the Second Chechen War. The novel, a remarkable decade-spanning debut, opens with eight-year-old Havaa looking on as her father is dragged off by Russian soldiers for a crime he did not commit. The soldiers set fire to Havaa's home, and next-door neighbor Akhmed attempts to hide her at nearby hospital. Sonya, the doctor who runs the facility, is hesitant to harbor Havaa, as the child invites unnecessary...

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Hell-Puppy20 декабря 2016 г.
You are mine. I recognize you. We twist our souls around each other's miseries. It is that which makes us family.
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Hell-Puppy20 декабря 2016 г.
There is something miraculous in the way the years wash away your evidence, first you, then your friends and family, then the descendants who remember your face, until you aren’t even a memory, you’re only carbon, no greater than your atoms, and time will divide them as well.
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Hell-Puppy20 декабря 2016 г.
Life: a constellation of vital phenomena—organization, irritability, movement, growth, reproduction, adaptation.
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