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This novel was on the Booker Russian Prize shortlist and won awards in France and Italy.
Physically unattractive, lanky Sonechka with her skinny legs and flat bum, has for defensive reasons been a bookworm since age seven. Only when she is twenty-seven is she discovered, working in the basement of a Siberian library by the artist Robert Victorovich. The artist had returned to Russia from abroad in the 1930s only to be exiled to the labor camps
Physically unattractive, lanky Sonechka with her skinny legs and flat bum, has for defensive reasons been a bookworm since age seven. Only when she is twenty-seven is she discovered, working in the basement of a Siberian library by the artist Robert Victorovich. The artist had returned to Russia from abroad in the 1930s only to be exiled to the labor camps
