- Fiction, World War, 1939-1945, History, Europe, fiction
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Classical in form, grave, earnest and plot-driven.
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- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Alan Furst
- First published
- 1988
- Pages
- 437
- Publisher
- Bodley Head, Random House Publishing Group, Weidenfeld & Nicolson
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780375760006
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First sentence
“IN BULGARIA, IN 1934, ON A MUDDY STREET IN THE RIVER town of Vidin, Khristo Stoianev saw his brother kicked to death by fascist militia.”
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