{"product_id":"android-karenina-isbn-9781594744600","title":"Android Karenina","description":"\u003cb\u003eLeo Tolstoy meets robots in this “creepy, thrilling, and highly enjoyable” sci-fi mashup of the classic Russian novel \u003ci\u003eAnna Karenina \u003c\/i\u003e(\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e“ . . . lives up to its promise to make Tolstoy ‘awesomer.’”—\u003ci\u003eThe Onion AV Club\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e It’s been called the greatest novel ever written. Now, Tolstoy’s timeless saga of love and betrayal is transported to an awesomer version of 19th-century Russia. It is a world humming with high-powered groznium engines: where debutantes dance the 3D waltz in midair, mechanical wolves charge into battle alongside brave young soldiers, and robots—miraculous, beloved robots!—are the faithful companions of everyone who’s anyone.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Restless to forge her own destiny in this fantastic modern life, the bold noblewoman Anna and her enigmatic Android Karenina abandon a loveless marriage to seize passion with the daring, handsome Count Vronsky. But when their scandalous affair gets mixed up with dangerous futuristic villainy, the ensuing chaos threatens to rip apart their lives, their families, and—just maybe—all of planet Earth.“Literary hybrids of Jane Austen novels and zombie stories? That’s \u003ci\u003eso\u003c\/i\u003e last year. Quirk Books, which released the best-selling novels \u003ci\u003ePride and Prejudice and Zombies\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters\u003c\/i\u003e, has seen the future of the mashup novel, and it is Leo Tolstoy and robots.”—\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e“Anna’s nightmare, one of the most famous passages in \u003ci\u003eAnna Karenina\u003c\/i\u003e, clearly anticipates the ‘steampunk-inspired’ atmosphere of \u003ci\u003eAndroid Karenina\u003c\/i\u003e… Tolstoy didn’t know about steampunk or cyborgs, but he did know about the nightmarishness of steam power, unruly machines, and the creepy half-human status of the Russian peasant classes.”\u003ci\u003e—Elif Batuman, \u003c\/i\u003eauthor of\u003ci\u003e The Possessed\u003c\/i\u003e, via \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e“\u003c\/b\u003eCreepy, thrilling, and highly enjoyable!”—\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Whenever a truly pulpy trend reaches its apotheosis like this, I can't help but wonder if we'll get a new classic out of it.”—\u003ci\u003eio9\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “\u003ci\u003eAndroid Karenina\u003c\/i\u003e lives up to its promise to make Tolstoy ‘awesomer.’”—\u003ci\u003eThe Onion AV Club\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Winters, a playwright, librettist, and author of \u003ci\u003eSense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters\u003c\/i\u003e, connects all of Tolstoy’s dots in the cleverly bizarre world he has created and he transforms a Russian novel into a reasonably demented work of science fiction.”—\u003ci\u003eGalley Cat\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “With \u003ci\u003eAndroid\u003c\/i\u003e, Winters has given Tolstoy's beautiful Russian epic a steampunk edge, filling the book with robots, space travel and yes, even a few aliens.”—\u003ci\u003eTechland\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eLeo Tolsoy\u003c\/b\u003e, the author of \u003ci\u003eWar and Peace\u003c\/i\u003e, has been called the most brilliant master of realistic fiction in all literary history. He lived in Russia. \u003cb\u003eBen H. Winters\u003c\/b\u003e collaborated with Jane Austen on the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebest seller \u003ci\u003eSense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in Brooklyn.","brand":"Quirk Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46299765702885,"sku":"NP9781594744600","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781594744600.jpg?v=1767721570","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/android-karenina-isbn-9781594744600","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}