Word: clothesbrush
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...thus far failed to interest American publishers because of its monumental proportions. Still, the two-volume, 800-page novel has already survived a major hazard of emigration. The author managed to smuggle the microfilmed manuscript out of the Soviet Union by concealing it in the handle of a clothesbrush. Now available in Russian in the West, the book is a masterpiece of modern realism. Set in the author's native Odessa, The Courtyard tells the intermingled life stories of ten families that occupy a single tenement house. No other work of Russian fiction has portrayed the everyday life...
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