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Half a Revolution (1995)

Half a Revolution (1995)

Literary Fiction Short Stories

Masha Gessen

Year: 1995
Authors: Masha Gessen
Print type: BOOK

Description:

Nine stories by Russian women. In She Who Bears No Ill, a woman disfigured by a disease prefers to be locked up in a mental institution rather than be looked at with repugnance outside, while The Day of the Poplar Flakes describes the shoddy treatment of terminally ill patients in a provincial hospital.