Maidenhair

Day after day the Russian asylum-seekers sit across from the interpreter and Peter - the Swiss officers who guard the gates to paradise - and tell of the atrocities they''ve suffered, or that they''ve invented, or heard from someone else. These stories of escape, war, and violence intermingle with the interpreter''s own reading: a history of an ancient Persian war; letters sent to his son Nebuchadnezzasaurus,'' ruler of a distant, imaginary childhood empire; and the diaries of a Russian singer who lived through Russia''s wars and revolutions.''

• | Author: Mikhail Shishkin
• | Publisher: Open Letter
• | Publication Date: Nov 08, 2012
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9781934824368
• | ISBN-10: 1934824364