About This Book
Man Booker Prize Finalist: This "marvelous novel" about an abandoned husband, set in Moscow a century ago, is "bristling with wry comedy" ( Newsday). March 1913. Moscow is stirring herself to meet the beginning of spring. English painter Frank Reid returns from work one night to find that his wife h...
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4h 53m
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180 WPM
3h 31m
average reader
250 WPM
2h 31m
fast reader
350 WPM
π 52,800 wordsπ
8 days at 30 min/day
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