“That’s how it is in the West. Here, it is the most dangerous book ever written. So dangerous the regime banished its writer to the taiga. So dangerous that reading it or quoting from it carries a death sentence. There, it is just another book, with a sales code on its back cover.” “But you carry a copy of that death sentence with you.” “Everything I do is a death sentence,” Taisiya said. “I may as well read what I feel like reading.”
