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First UK printing. Author's first book to be published in English - this slim novel is described as 'a uniquely feminine meditation on death and absence: the absence of the heroine's husband, of the intense life of her childhood in wartime Russia and her youth in Moscow, of friends and family who have vanished behind the tundra of the Gulag' and on the coming death of her mother. Although born and educated in Russia, Bielski now lives in France where this was originally published in 1979; translated from the French by John Berger and Lisa Appignasesi. 133 pp. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. .ISBN # 0-906495709 

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