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Ever since studying in Russia as a college student, I had been in a long-distance, one-sided love affair with Chechnya's remarkable history, culture and rugged natural beauty.

~Anthony Marra

Topics: Affair Beauty Been Chechnya College Culture Ever Had History Long-Distance Love Love Affair Natural Natural Beauty One-Sided Remarkable Rugged Russia Since Student Studying

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When I visited Chechnya, I was taken aback at first because people would regularly make jokes about kidnapping me.

~Anthony Marra

Topics: About Because Chechnya First Jokes Kidnapping Make Me People Regularly Taken Visited Would

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I had assumed I'd pack my bags and head elsewhere after 'Constellation,' but Chechnya is creeping its way into the margins of my second book.

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Topics: After Assumed Bags Book Chechnya Elsewhere Had Head Margins Pack Second Way

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Research is not an obstacle, something to be frightened of. It can be one of the real joys of writing.

~Anthony Marra

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To make a book convincing, it's less important that the right tree be in the right place than that the characters are emotionally real.

~Anthony Marra

Topics: Book Characters Convincing Emotionally Important Less Make Place Real Right Right Place Than Tree

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I didn't know a single person who had ever been there. I wasn't even sure how to spell Chechnya.

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I quickly realized I live the least interesting literary life imaginable. My parents are happily married. There haven't been any major traumas. I'm not sure that the story of my life would be much fun to read.

~Anthony Marra

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You look at a surgeon as you would a secular priest, almost, if it's your child, if it's your sister on the operating table. That was an idea that very much has interested me and I've wanted to explore for some time.

~Anthony Marra

Topics: Almost Child Explore Idea Interested Look Me Much Operating Priest Secular Sister Some Surgeon Table Time Very Wanted Would You Your Your Child

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My first real awareness of Chechnya came when I was a college student studying in Russia. I arrived in St. Petersburg about two months after Anna Politkovskaya was assassinated for her reports on Chechnya. I lived with an elderly woman and her grown children in an apartment that was not too far from the neighborhood military cadet school.

~Anthony Marra

Topics: About After Anna Apartment Arrived Awareness Came Chechnya Children College Elderly Far First Grown Her Lived Military Months Neighborhood Real Reports Russia School Student Studying Too Two Woman

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I read all of the nonfiction that I could find on Chechnya, and all the while, I was searching for a novel that was set there. I couldn't find a single novel written in English that was set in the period of the two most recent Chechen wars.

~Anthony Marra

Topics: Chechnya Could English Find Most Nonfiction Novel Period Read Recent Searching Set Single Two Wars While Written

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: Unknown

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