Cranes and Pygmies
A 1990s Moscow impostor and a seventeenth-century pretender to the Russian throne are told in parallel, each claiming a name that is not his own. The book asks who gets believed when the rules of legitimacy break down. A winner of the first prize of Russia's Big Book award.
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