André Van Loon

Love at first sight | 4 July 2019

When a beautiful teenage Russian girl appears at Biarritz, Cromwell, an English youth, is immediatley infatuated

issue 06 July 2019

  • Isolde

    Irina Odoevtseva, translated from the Russian by Bryan Karetnyk and Irina Steinberg

    Pushkin Press, pp. 320

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