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Product Description: Set in a psychiatric clinic in Moscow in the long decades of late-Soviet stagnation, Before and During sweeps the reader away from its dismal surroundings on a series of fantastical excursions into the Russian past.â¨We meet Leo Tolstoyâs twin brother, eaten by the great writer in his motherâs womb, only to be born as Tolstoyâs âsonâ; the philosopher-hermit Nikolai Fyodorov, who believed that the common task of humanity was the physical resurrection of their ancestors; a self-replicating Madame de Staël who, during her second life, is carried through plague-ridden Russia in a glass palanquin and becomes Fyodorovâs lover; and the composer Alexander Scriabin, who preaches to Lenin on the shores of Lake Geneva...read more
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9781907650710, titled "Before & During" | Dedalus Ltd, March 31, 2015, cover price $19.99 | About this edition: Set in a psychiatric clinic in Moscow in the long decades of late-Soviet stagnation, Before and During sweeps the reader away from its dismal surroundings on a series of fantastical excursions into the Russian past.
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9781903517529 | Italian edition edition (Dedalus Ltd, March 15, 2007), cover price $11.99 | About this edition: Set during the Soviet era, a remote, police-run settlement called the Ninth Siding exists only for the mysterious Zero Train that halts there.
9781903517017 | Dedalus Ltd, November 1, 2001, cover price $11.99 | About this edition: Erotic, brutal, mysterious and moving, The Zero Train takes place at a lonely Soviet railway settlement run by the secret police.
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