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Description edit
Moscow, 1939. In the recesses of the infamous Lubyanka prison, a young archivist is sent to authenticate an unsigned story confiscated from one of the many political prisoners there. The writer is Isaac Babel. The great author of Red Cavalry is spending his last days forbidden to write, his... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Pavel Vasilievich: Add a description of this character.
- Semyon
- Natalya
- Victor
- Kutyrev
- Elena
- Simonov
- Maxim Andrevich
- Olga
- Vera
- Misha
- Dashenko
- Mama
- Andrei
- Radlov
- Pasha
- Dr. Hirsch
- Valentina
- Marfa Borisova
- Ivan Ivanovitch
- Sevarov
- Denegin
- Kudelin
- Peter
- Donskoy
- Anna
- Boyarska
- Golovkin
- Mandelstam
- Hitler
- Nadezhda
Quotes edit
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“It occurs to Pavel now, as it has before while walking these streets, that the shops and rusting kiosks and tenantless flats they are passing - dark, shuttered, scrawled with graffiti -could well be portents of what awaits all of Russia. War, famine, apocalypse. The end of history. Then again he could be seeing the age as it already is, stripped to its essence. Russia's true, unadorned face: ravaged, bereft, eaten hollow with grief for its lost children.”
First Sentence edit
It is a small matter that brings them together. A story, untitled, unsigned, and by all appearances incomplete, which the arresting officers in their haste have neglected to record in the evidence manifest.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Travis Holland (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Dial Press Trade Paperback
Country: Add the country of publication.
Publication Date: 2008
ISBN: 0385339968
Page Count: 256
Publisher: Dial Press Trade Paperback
Country: Add the country of publication.
Publication Date: 2008
ISBN: 0385339968
Page Count: 256
Awards edit
- International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award (Finalist, 2009, Short list)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 813.6
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