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Chapters (53)
  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. An Explanation of What This Book Is About
  4. Part One: Anna’s Sergei and Anya’s City: St. Petersburg, Saturday, January 8, 1905
  5. 1. On the Heels of Clementine, the Anarchist
  6. 2. Claudia and Sergei
  7. 3. Clementine Defends Herself
  8. 4. To the Concert
  9. 5. The Tsar’s Letter
  10. 6. In the Theater
  11. 7. What Giorgi, the Karenins’ Coachman, Did
  12. 8. Intermission at the Concert
  13. 9. Near the Port
  14. 10. More Specifics about Sergei
  15. 11. Kapitonich, Hall Porter at the Karenin Palace
  16. 12. Claudia and Sergei at Table
  17. 13. Aleksandra and Volodin Go to the Haven
  18. 14. Our Moment of Greatness
  19. 15. With Father Gapon
  20. 16. Clementine, in Pursuit of the Night
  21. 17. In the Karenin Palace Kitchen
  22. 18. We’ll Give Our Lives!
  23. 19. The Karenins Take Dinner
  24. Part Two: Bloody Sunday: Sunday, January 9, 1905
  25. 20. Anya Karenina without Aleksandra
  26. 21. The Karenins’ Reply to the Tsar
  27. 22. Piotr
  28. 23. The Three Women
  29. 24. Claudia’s Impatience
  30. 25. Unexpected Guests at the Karenin Palace
  31. 26. What on Earth Was the Tsar Thinking?
  32. 27. Back in the Karenin Palace Kitchen
  33. 28. The Reverend’s Beard
  34. Part Three: Karenina’s Portrait: Three months later
  35. 29. Karenina’s Portrait
  36. 30. About Clementine
  37. 31. The Critics Examine the Portrait
  38. 32. Vladimir
  39. 33. The Reason for the Proposed Purchase
  40. 34. The Portrait Departs
  41. 35. Between the Dream and the Battleship Potemkin
  42. 36. Claudia’s Regrets
  43. 37. In Claudia’s Hands
  44. Part Four: The Book of Anna: No date or place
  45. 38. An Opium-Infused Fairy Tale: The Book of Anna by Anna Karenina
  46. Part Five: Finale: St. Petersburg, June 1905
  47. 39. After Reading
  48. 40. The Plot
  49. 41. The Boxes
  50. 42. Anya Karenina
  51. 43. The Wind
  52. Funder Acknowledgments
  53. The Publisher’s Circle of Coffee House Press

Coffee House Press receives additional support from the Elmer L. & Eleanor J. Andersen Foundation; the David & Mary Anderson Family Foundation; Bookmobile; Dorsey & Whitney LLP; Foundation Technologies; Fredrikson & Byron, P.A.; the Fringe Foundation; Kenneth Koch Literary Estate; the Matching Grant Program Fund of the Minneapolis Foundation; Mr. Pancks’ Fund in memory of Graham Kimpton; the Schwab Charitable Fund; Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.; the Silicon Valley Community Foundation; and the U.S. Bank Foundation.

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The Publisher’s Circle of Coffee House Press

THE PUBLISHER’S CIRCLE OF COFFEE HOUSE PRESS

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Carmen Boullosa—a Cullman Center, a Guggenheim, a Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, and a Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes Fellow—was born in Mexico City in 1954. She’s a poet, playwright, essayist, novelist, and artist, and has been a professor at New York University; Columbia University; City College, City University of New York; Georgetown; and other institutions. She’s now at Macaulay Honors College, City University of New York. The New York Public Library acquired her papers and artist books. More than a dozen books and over ninety dissertations have been written about her work.

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