Chechnya

by Anthony Marra

Genres: Short Stories

Unknown Binding

About the author

Anthony Marra is the New York Times bestselling author of The Tsar of Love and Techno and A Constellation of Vital Phenomena, winner of the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Prize and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, and longlisted for the National Book Award.

Reviews

[Janelle · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a story about war, human trafficking and people trying to help others as all around them horrible things are happening.

[lita · Rating 2 out of 5]

“Her request for refugee status was denied. The only refugees from the conflict given amnesty had names like Nurbiika, Nurishat, and Nazha, not Natasha. She was ethnic Russian, and even though she had never been north of the Chechen border, though the land shelled by the Red Army belonged to her as much as Nurbiika, Nurishat, and Nazha, she was not the war’s refugee.”

This is where you lost me, my friend.

[Sasha · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is very gripping, but the burst of humor and irony at the end is like cold water on a hot day. Very tight and wartorn, apocalyptic but atmospheric. I wanted to know more about Natasha and her mysterious cigarette burns and sleeping addiction, but alas. I enjoyed this.

[Bighomer · Rating 5 out of 5]

Gripping and harrowing, a short story about two sisters from war-torn Chechnya.

[Katie · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.5⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

[Ann · Rating 4 out of 5]

Part of me feels like it ended abruptly and I would have wanted to know more details but another part of me knows that this makes for a good slice-of-life story.

[Sara]

In war time we hear many lonely creapy story.its horror to feal it but still they are be.

[Jackie Northall · Rating 4 out of 5]

A good short story