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What Happened to Anna K.

by Irina Reyn (2008)

3.75(4 ratings)

Married unhappily to a prominent member of her tight-knit Russian-Jewish immigrant community in Queens, vivacious Anna K. engages in a reckless affair with an outsider on whom she has pinned fleeting hopes for freedom. Reimagines Tolstoy's classic tragedy, Anna Karenina, for our time.

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