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1) Beguny
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Russian
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"Where are we from? Where did you come from here? Where are we going? In the novel from one of the most original world writers, Olga Tokarchuk, thoughts of travel intertwine with mysterious stories related to each other by the themes of death, movement, prolongation of life and the mystery of the human body. We are all travelers in this world: someone wanders with purpose, someone without. Someone moves through time, someone through space. What does...
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Series
Language
Russian
Description
In 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, and is sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol, a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin. Rostov, an indomitable man of erudition and wit, has never worked a day in his life, and must now live in an attic room while some of the most tumultuous decades in Russian history are unfolding outside the hotel's doors. Unexpectedly, his reduced circumstances...