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By (author) Olga Slavnikova, Translated by Marian Schwartz





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In a Russian Booker Prize-winning tale set 100 years after the revolution in a region of painful class distinctions, a wealthy professor launches an expedition to locate a cache of priceless rubies while his gem-cutter protégé begins a scandalous affair that is overshadowed by his ex-wife and a spy.

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Publisher | Overlook Press
Published date | 2 Oct 2012
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Format | Paperback / softback
Pages | 414
Dimensions | 222 x 146 x 25mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 522g
ISBN | 978-1-4683-0121-2
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BISAC | fiction / literary


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