"Roza Abramovna herself was a little frightening: she was a good-natured, even kind woman, but extremely loud, plus she sported dark black, bushy eyebrows and a mustache. What scared me was that she had several husbands and talked about them non-stop, referring to them by number: my first husband, my second husband, my third. It was all so mysterious and fascinating."
from "Gooseberries" by Katya Metelitsa, translated by Asya Graf, in Absinthe #16
Bookselling in ... Japan
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In *The Japan Times* Alex K.T.Martin reports that The story isn't
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