Word: kostyenko
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Semyonov's uninspired story will not engage Western readers-who will be too busy, anyway, watching for those occasional and probably deliberate glimpses of life in Russia as it really is. Kostyenko, one of the detectives, has been separated from his wife and daughter for years while waiting impatiently for the state to find him an apartment commodious enough to unite them. Telephones don't work; elevators crawl; a refrigerator freezes butter solid...
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