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The Last of the Vostyachs - Marani, Diego, and Landry, Judith (Translated by)
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The Last of the Vostyachs won two literary prizes in Italy: The Premio Campiello and The Premio Stresa. As a child, Ivan and his father work as forced labourers in a mine in Siberia, the father having committed some minor offence against the regime. Ivan's father is then murdered in front of his young son, after which Ivan -- who is a Vostyach, an imaginary ethnic group of whose language he is the last remaining speaker -- is struck dumb by what he has witnessed. Some twenty years later the guards desert their posts and ...

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The Last of the Vostyachs 2013, Dedalus Ltd, Cambs

ISBN-13: 9781907650567

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