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A Russian Novel

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Set in Paris and Kotelnich, a small post-Soviet town, A Russian Novel traces Carrere's pursuit of two obsessions: the disappearance of his Russian grandfather and his fascination with a woman he loves but cannot keep from destroying.

Elegant and passionate, A Russian Novel weaves the strands of Carrere's story into a travelogue of a journey inward.

Road trip, confession, emotional tour de force, this fearless reckoning illuminates the schemes we devise to evade ourselves and the inevitable payment they exact as we discover we cannot, after all, escape our most fearsome and persistent adversary: yourself.

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Serpent's Tail
1846686741 / 9781846686740
Paperback
843.92
15/03/2012
United Kingdom
English
General
256 p.
20 cm
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Reprint. This translation originally published: New York: Henry Holt; London: Serpent's Tail, 2010.