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'A Terrible Country' rediscovers Russia and its paradoxes
In the new novel "A Terrible Country," young, Soviet-born Andrei Kaplan is struggling in his academic career and getting over a breakup, when he returns to Russia to care for his aging grandmother. Jeffrey Brown talks with author Keith Gessen about the ways the story parallels his own life and the country’s contradictions.
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