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The archivist's story

Holland, Travis2007
Books, Manuscripts
Lubyanka prison, Moscow, 1939, a young archivist interviews a prisoner to determine his authorship of an unfinished story. The archivist is charged with cataloguing and destroying the works of the purged, imprisoned writers. One of the prisoners if Isaac Babel, Russia's most famous living writer, who will be executed within the year.
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