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Page 17
Mama and my sister Galya were living in the Polesye 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 Polesye 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 48
Most of them lived on the outskirts of the city , in Izmailovo , Cherkizovo , Kotly or
beyond Presnya . He went where possible by tram , but very often had to walk .
Shchelkunov had a sixth sense for anything to do with books . He would sniff out
a ...
Most of them lived on the outskirts of the city , in Izmailovo , Cherkizovo , Kotly or
beyond Presnya . He went where possible by tram , but very often had to walk .
Shchelkunov had a sixth sense for anything to do with books . He would sniff out
a ...
Page 129
Of course we were living in a legendary , fantastic timesometimes it seemed more
like a nightmare or a grotesque travesty of reality — but all I could see was the
same grey sky over the tumbledown suburban hovels as twenty years before .
Of course we were living in a legendary , fantastic timesometimes it seemed more
like a nightmare or a grotesque travesty of reality — but all I could see was the
same grey sky over the tumbledown suburban hovels as twenty years before .
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