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  The Billancourt Tales (Paperback) By (author) Nina Berberova, Translated by Marian Schwartz

  

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  Short Description for The Billancourt Tales Written in Paris between 1928 and 1940 for an emigrant newspaper, Billancourt Tales is about the industrialized suburb of Paris where thousands of exiled Russians, including Berberova, were finding factory work and establishing homes.
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  • Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
  • Published: 24 July 2009
  • Format: Paperback 192 pages
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  • Categories: Contemporary Fiction | Short Stories
  • ISBN 13: 9780811218337 ISBN 10: 0811218333

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Full description for The Billancourt Tales

• These fine stories, sometimes amusing, sometimes sad, portray a wide range of human emotions. All show Berberova at her very best, "as graceful and subtle as Chekhov" (Anne Tyler).