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Page 17
Mama and my sister Galya were living in the Polesye5 near the little town of
Chernobyl . There , my Aunt Vera , who lived in Kiev , owned a small estate ,
Kopan , which Mama had undertaken to run . Anything to do with the land
delighted her .
Mama and my sister Galya were living in the Polesye5 near the little town of
Chernobyl . There , my Aunt Vera , who lived in Kiev , owned a small estate ,
Kopan , which Mama had undertaken to run . Anything to do with the land
delighted her .
Page 140
I lived alone . Mama and Galya were still completely cut off from Kiev . I could get
no news of them . I had decided that in spring I would make my way to Kopan on
foot , in spite of people warning me that I would have to cross the unsettled ...
I lived alone . Mama and Galya were still completely cut off from Kiev . I could get
no news of them . I had decided that in spring I would make my way to Kopan on
foot , in spite of people warning me that I would have to cross the unsettled ...
Page 185
Now , at a distance of decades , it all seems to me incredible : our conversations
in the broken - down goods wagon where the wind whistled through the bullet
holes and where our ill - assorted company lived in such cheerful harmony — the
...
Now , at a distance of decades , it all seems to me incredible : our conversations
in the broken - down goods wagon where the wind whistled through the bullet
holes and where our ill - assorted company lived in such cheerful harmony — the
...
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Contents
Whirlpool page | 7 |
Blue Torches | 23 |
The Journalists Café | 36 |
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| Title | Story of a Life: In that dawn Volume 3 of Story of a Life, Konstantin Paustovsky |
| Author | Konstantin Paustovsky |
| Translated by | Manya Harari |
| Publisher | Harvill Press, 1967 |
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