Ruslan
Subtitle: A Novel of Russia
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
Published: October 26, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 456
ISBN-13: 9781400052691
Subjects: Fiction - Historical; Fiction; Historical - General; Fiction / Historical; Reading Group Guide
First sentence: There is no food in Russia: wizened peasants, their faces as wrinkled as old apples and as red, kneel on the frozen ground and scrabble with their fingertips at projections, lumps and bumps that might conceal a beet, a carrot, a turnip white and sad as the sky above their heads.