A Constellation of Vital Phenomena

2011-11-16T22:45:00.000-08:00

I'm thrilled to report that my debut novel will be published by Hogarth (a new fiction imprint launched by Random House/Crown). Here is the announcement from Publishers Marketplace:

Stegner Fellow, Iowa MFA, and winner of The Atlantic's emerging writers' contest Anthony Marra's A CONSTELLATION OF VITAL PHENOMENA, set in an abandoned hospital in war-torn Chechnya where a tough-minded doctor, recently returned from London in search of her missing sister, makes the decision to harbor both a young girl whose father was abducted by Russian forces, and the neighbor who rescued her, with dramatic and powerful consequences for all, with a story collection, to Lindsay Sagnette at Hogarth in the US, Becky Hardie at Hogarth Press in the UK, and Anne Collins at Knopf Canada, in a pre-empt, in a two-book deal, by Janet Silver at Zachary Shuster Harmsworth Literary Agency (World). Rights also to Piemme in Italy, in a pre-empt, and Intrinseca in Brazil.

Several of the stories from the collection are available online from The Atlantic Monthly ("The Wolves of Bilaya Forest") and Narrative ("Granddaughters" and "The Palace of the People").