Solovyov and Larionov

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A Oneworld Book

First published in North America, Great Britain and Australia by Oneworld Publications 2018

This ebook published 2018

Originally published in Russian as Соловьев и Ларионов

by AST, Eleny Shubinoi imprint

The publication of the book was negotiated through Banke, Goumen & Smirnova Literary Agency (www.bgs-agency.com)

Copyright © Eugene Vodolazkin, 2009

English translation copyright © Lisa C. Hayden, 2018

The moral right of Eugene Vodolazkin to be identified as the Author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988

All rights reserved

Copyright under Berne Convention

A CIP record for this title is available from the British Library

ISBN 978-1-78607-035-7

ISBN 978-1-78607-036-4 (ebook)

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events or locales is entirely coincidental.

This publication was effected under the auspices of the Mikhail Prokhorov Foundation

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Published with the support of the Institute for Literary Translation (Russia)

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