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  • She Came from Mariupol

    by Natascha Wodin ...
    Translated by Alfred Kueppers ...
    WINNER OF THE 2017 LEIPZIG BOOK FAIR PRIZE—When Natascha Wodin’s mother died, Natascha was only ten years old—too young to find out what her mother had experienced during World War II. All the little girl knew was that they were detritus, human debris left over from the war. Years later, Natascha set out on a quest to find out what happened to her mother during that time. Why had they lived in a ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

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  • Under A Cruel Star: A Life In Prague 1941-1968

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  • Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking

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  • The Unquiet Ghost

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  • The House of Government

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  • Word for Word

    A Translator's Memoir of Literature, Politics, and Survival in Soviet Russia

    by Lilianna Lungina ...
    A remarkable memoir of living in the Soviet Union and working as a literary translator.In the early twentieth century, Lilianna Lungina was a Russian Jew born to privilege, spending her childhood in Germany, France, and Palestine. But when she was thirteen, her parents moved to the USSR—where Lungina became witness to many of the era's greatest upheavals.Exiled during World War II, dragged to KGB ... Read more

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  • Dancing Under the Red Star

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  • The Road

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