{"product_id":"what-happened-to-anna-k-9781416558941","title":"What Happened to Anna K.","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSynopsis coming soon.......\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Irina Reyn has done the impossible: she has reimagined one of mankind's very best novels, and made it beautifully her own. That she has not diminished Tolstoy but updated him -- freshened him for the strange, sensuous time in which we live -- is as wondrous a feat as I can recall in contemporary fiction.\" -- Darin Strauss, author of \u003ci\u003eChang and Eng\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Real McCoy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This witty, psychologically astute, and immensely pleasurable novel is something of a miracle. By dint of some divine stubbornness, the author has folded the Tolstoyan paradigm of grandeur and regret into our pettier, shallower age, and illuminated both in the process. I know of no recent first novel that has better captured the way we live now, with as assured a sense of comedy and compassion.\" -- Phillip Lopate, author of \u003ci\u003eWaterfront\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePortrait of My Body\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This intricately woven and, frankly, bedazzling novel is more than a retelling of \u003ci\u003eAnna Karenina.\u003c\/i\u003e It's a laser-sharp portrait of the contemporary Russian-American dream, New York style. Irina Reyn's voice is sophisticated and street smart, and once I became acquainted with her characters I could not put this novel down.\" -- Frederick Reiken, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Odd Sea\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Lost Legends of New Jersey\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"What every émigré community deserves is a few fearless, insightful, and penetrating young voices both to announce an arrival and sing an elegy. Irina Reyn is one of those voices, and her first novel is as charming as it is sad, as funny as it is revelatory.\" -- Tom Bissell, author of \u003ci\u003eGod Lives in St. Petersburg\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Father of All Things\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Irina Reyn's sly wit and perfect-pitch dialogue make this modern-day retelling of \u003ci\u003eAnna Karenina\u003c\/i\u003e a delight to read. Reyn is a cunning writer who knows her subject -- Russian-Jewish immigrants in New York City -- inside out, and casts a skeptical glance at their habits, aspirations, and thwarted destinies. Readers should love this novel, whether or not they know the original Anna.\" -- Lynne Sharon Schwartz, author of \u003ci\u003eRuined by Reading\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLeaving Brooklyn\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Irina Reyn's debut offers a feisty reimagining of the original tale, with contemporary Russian-Jewish characters in Queens, Manhattan, and Brooklyn brought to vividly detailed life -- and with the conundrums and consolations of immigration itself rendered compassionately and smartly.\" -- Martha Cooley, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Archivist\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThirty-Three Swoons\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51769450594647,"sku":"9781416558941","price":13.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/what-happened-to-anna-k-9781416558941","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}