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Name: Maidenhair
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Author: Mikhail Shishkin

Day after day 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.The reader lives inside the nameless interpreter's head, with the narratives combining throughout.

First publish date: 2012

Authors: Mikhail Shishkin

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