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2015 selection · Nonfiction
The Big Green Tent: A Novel by Ludmila Ulitskaya, translated by Polly Gannon appears in NPR’s 2015 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around for art lovers, for history lovers, rather long, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
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