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Glorious People

By Sasha Salzmann, translated by Imogen Taylor

“Somehow we survived. Again and again,” says a woman in this novel about life in the former USSR. Growing up in the 1970s in what is now eastern Ukraine, Lena experienced the full range of Soviet delights, from trips to the technical museum to see steam boilers

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