From rags to prison in Russia—you shouldn’t ever rule it out for anyone. That’s what Андрей Рубанов’s debut novel is about, closely matching the author’s own biography. Before his arrest, the hero had everything—but after passing through the furnace of Lefortovo and the Matrosskaya Tishina prison, he came out of prison poor… but transformed.
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