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A darkly comic, erotic novel which was shortlisted for the 1981 Booker Prize. Bored by a writers' conference in a London hotel, the narrator and three Soviet friends improvise stories that will make a novel. Like Russian dolls, the episodes they create unfold, each with another inside it.
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2 editions- Other · English · 1990Gollancz · 255 pages · 9780575048027
- Other · English · 1990Viking · 247 pages · 9780670832187
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