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Classical in form, cool, grave and plot-driven.
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
- resolvedopen-ended
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About the book
- Author
- Boris Akunin
- First published
- 2005
- Pages
- 254
- Publisher
- Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ), PHOENIX PRESS, Random House Audio
- Editions
- 9
- Language
- German, English
- ISBN
- 9780297645511
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First sentence
“ACCORDING TO ST. AUGUSTINE, woman is a frail and fickle creature, and the great obscurantist and misogynist was right a thousand times over-at least with regard to a certain individual by the name of Varvara Suvorova.”
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