The new book from one of the most prizewinning young writers in the US -- nine dazzling interwoven stories about family, sacrifice, the legacy of war and the redemptive power of art

"Each story is a gem... almost unbearably moving" New York Times "Seamlessly narrated, with flashes of dark humour" International New York Times "Seamlessly narrated, with flashes of dark humour" International New York Times "A superbly artful collection" BBC Culture "Remarkable... Marra is a gifted writer with the energy and the ambition to explore the lives of characters whose experiences and whose psyches might seem, until we read his work, so distant from our own. Reading his work is like watching the restoration - the reappearance, on the page - of those whom history has erased" Washington Post

ANTHONY MARRA is the author of A Constellation of Vital Phenomena (2013), which in the US won the National Book Critics Circle's inaugural John Leonard Prize, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in fiction, and the Barnes and Noble Fiction Discover Award and appeared on more than twenty Books of the Year lists. Internationally it won prizes including the Grand Prix des Lectrices de Elle in France and the Athens Prize for Literature in Greece. A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and a Guggenheim Fellow and Whiting Award recipient, Marra lives in Oakland, California, and teaches at Stanford University. Visit http://anthonymarra.net/.