The original act of creation, it taps into whatever creative well I finished a new draft, I'd print it out, set it in front of my keyboard,Īnd retype the entire novel. I ended up writing four first-to-last-word Readers and reviewers have commented on the beauty Never have to make, but nonetheless will understand. Require them to make decisions the reader will hopefully Peacefully and provide for our loved onesbut This cast of characters wants what we all wantto My answer would be that it is a setting that magnifies andĭramatizes the moral conflicts of characters in extraordinary Stories that I felt needed to be brought to life through fiction.īut to answer the question of why set a novel in Chechnya, Of ordinary people in remarkable situations were the kinds of Its history and culture has inspired writers I began reading nonfiction accounts of Chechnya and quicklyīecame fascinated. Saw Russian veterans soliciting for alms in the Metro stations. Reached as far north as Petersburg, where on a daily basis I I realized thatĬhechnya was a place I didn't know how to spell and couldn'tįind on a map, but the ramifications of the wars there had The journalist Anna Politkovskaya was assassinated, presumablyįor the reporting she did from Chechnya. I first became interested in the region as a college student Anthony Marra answers questions about The Constellation of Vital Phenomena, set in war-torn Chechnya and the reason he rewrote this, his first novel, four timesĪ.
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