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    BOOKS OF THE MONTH

    Nov 04, 2022 2 minutes

      In this timely novella about a Russian military conscript defecting from the army, 20-year-old Aliocha is on the Trans-Siberian railway from Moscow to Vladivostok. When he gets there, he plans to “hide, remake himself and earn enough to get back to the west”. But no literary train journey would be complete without encountering a stranger

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