Eastbound by Maylis de Kerangal
a pre-release post on a novella about Russian conscripts
a pre-release post on a novella about Russian conscripts
like a newspaper but a book… from 1965
how recently the Nobel Prize meant something
a very good contemporary novel
[insert Nabokov/nobokov joke or something?]
a non-fiction book that suffers from russian round
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