The archivist's story
Holland, Travis2008
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Lubyanka prison, Moscow, 1939. A young archivist interviews a prisoner to determine his authorship of an unfinished story. The archivist is charged with cataloguing and destroying the works of the purged, imprisoned writers. One of the prisoners is Isaac Babel, Russia's most famous living writer, who will be executed within the year.
Main title:
The archivist's story / Travis Holland.
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Imprint:
London : Bloomsbury, 2008.
Collation:
241 p. ; 20 cm.
Notes:
Originally published: 2007.
ISBN:
9780747593201 (pbk)0747593205 (pbk)
Dewey class:
813.6AF
Local class:
FT PBK
Language:
English
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BRN:
345054