Ruslan
Subtitle: A Novel
Edition: 1st ed edition
Publisher: Crown
Published: June 17, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 464
ISBN-13: 9781400047611
Subjects: Women soldiers; Poor women; History; Fiction - Historical; Fiction; Russia; Historical - General; Fiction / Historical; Reading Group Guide; Nicholas II, 1894-1917; Passing (Identity)
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.