Hard by a Great Forest

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"The stakes could barely be higher in Leo Vardiashvili s propulsive page-turner It s a spellbinding achievement." The Financial Times

Has a commercial-fiction spring in its step. Vardiashvili also has captured the winking, world-weary humor and magic-realist touches that mark a lot of literature from Europe s war-torn corners. Los Angeles Times

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