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Daisy
Dec 26, 2009 rated it liked it
Shelves: russia-ussr
Bleak and depressing novella of Stalinist times.
I did not realize this was the very same story as The Deserted House. Halfway through this book, it started sounding familiar and then I went to my shelves to retrieve my college copy of The Deserted House. The first sentences are identical except for the name change. It's Sofia Petrovna in one and Olga Petrovna in the other.
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Daisy
Dec 26, 2009 rated it liked it  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: russia-ussr
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Jul 23, 2013 marked it as to-read
Terri
Mar 06, 2018 marked it as around-the-world
Shelves: classic-fiction