Olga Grushin

When rumors about an exiled composer's return to Moscow for a farewell symphony spark power abuses among officials and bureaucrats, a disparate gaggle of strangers evolves into a community of friends bonded by long-buried memories and unexpected acts of kindness. By the award-winning author of The Dream Life of Sukanov.

The Line

When rumors about an exiled composer's return to Moscow for a farewell symphony spark power abuses among officials and bureaucrats, a disparate gaggle of strangers evolves into a community of friends bonded by long-buried memories and unexpected acts of kindness. Reprint.

Daryl Houston

An oddly compelling story given how it throws you into a sort of stasis. I noted early on that it (like the prose itself) seemed very still, gray, and Soviet, but that changes as you go, which is pretty neat.

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