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Maidenhair

ISBN-13: 9781934824368

Author(s): Mikhail Shishkin

Subjects: FA, FBA, FBC

Publisher: Open Letter

Publisher Imprint: Open Letter

Publication Date: 12-01-2013

Format: Paperback / softback

Availability: In stock

£16.99
Maidenhair

About the book

Day after day the Russian asylum-seekers sit across from the interpreter and Peter - the Swiss officers who guard the gates to paradise - and tell of the atrocities they've suffered, or that they've invented, or heard from someone else. These stories of escape, war, and violence intermingle with the interpreter's own reading: a history of an ancient Persian war; letters sent to his son Nebuchadnezzasaurus,' ruler of a distant, imaginary childhood empire; and the diaries of a Russian singer who lived through Russia's wars and revolutions.'