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Book Title: City Folk and Country Folk
Item Length: 8.4in
Item Height: 0.7in
Item Width: 5.7in
Author: SOFIA Khvoshchinskaya
Original Language: Russian
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Topic: General, Literary, Russian & Former Soviet Union
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication Year: 2017
Genre: Literary Collections, Fiction
Item Weight: 12.8 Oz
Number of Pages: 272 Pages
