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A Train to Moscow
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2022
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A Mountain of Crumbs
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2009
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20 editions
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Russian Tattoo: A Memoir
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2015
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Cyanobacteria
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2013
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Chekhov's Letters: Biography, Context, Poetics
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Goodbye Leningrad: Ein Memoir
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A Good Run
My mother, a “mirror image of my Motherland,” died on March 24. She was in bed, watching her favorite figure skating program, and she simply fell asleep, simply glided off to another world. A seemingly painless end to a long life. Three lives, to be exact. First was Ivanovo, where she sewed up the wounded in a military hospital one mile from the front line; where she buried her younger brother mai
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“The rules are simple: they lie to us, we know they're lying, they know we know they're lying, but they keep lying to us, and we keep pretending to believe them.”
― A Mountain of Crumbs
― A Mountain of Crumbs
“A bunch of silly men chasing a ball" my mother says "give each one his own ball if they're so desperate to have one”
― A Mountain of Crumbs
― A Mountain of Crumbs
“Look beyond that light,' says my father. 'Look hard and you'll see people filing into the theater. You'll see ushers run up and down the aisles; people talk, programs rustle-you'll hear a murmur. When the lights start to dim, the murmur rises, and then, just a moment before the curtain goes up, the noise stops-everyone in the house holds their breath, everyone knows what is going to happen. This is the moment I've always loved most:the anticipation of magic, the expectation of illusion.”
― A Mountain of Crumbs
― A Mountain of Crumbs
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