Wild BerriesEnriching the tale of Soviet scientists on a search for rare ore in the far northern taiga, or forests, of Siberia are Yevtushenko's voluptuous and poetic evocations of the Russian peasants and his own native countryside. |
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Page 12
... Zima Junction had sent him a cellophane - wrapped bar . Now he chewed it happily , feeling he had accomplished a tiny sedition since sulfur had been strictly banned at school when he was a child and , before the flight , the physicians ...
... Zima Junction had sent him a cellophane - wrapped bar . Now he chewed it happily , feeling he had accomplished a tiny sedition since sulfur had been strictly banned at school when he was a child and , before the flight , the physicians ...
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... Zima Junction . They fought with briefcases , and one blow landed right on his brow with the clasp . The girl they were fighting over was the daughter of the director of the hydrolysis plant , which produced the local rotgut . She stood ...
... Zima Junction . They fought with briefcases , and one blow landed right on his brow with the clasp . The girl they were fighting over was the daughter of the director of the hydrolysis plant , which produced the local rotgut . She stood ...
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... Zima " plaque because passengers usu- ally just jumped out onto the platform there , to buy the hard , veno- mously gold meat pies and local citrus soda with flaky sediment or simply to stretch their legs . Zima - the largest city in ...
... Zima " plaque because passengers usu- ally just jumped out onto the platform there , to buy the hard , veno- mously gold meat pies and local citrus soda with flaky sediment or simply to stretch their legs . Zima - the largest city in ...
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