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223 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1976
The vast gray pile next door towered over the street and kept the sun off it in the morning, while in the evening radio voices and phonograph music floated down from above. Up there in those lofty stories, it seemed, a life went on that was utterly different from life in the small house below, painted yellow in keeping with centuries-old tradition.
Glebov had the feeling that these indistinguishable little white statuettes 鈥� this schoolroom adornment 鈥� had been acquired in Germany during the inflation of the mid-1920s, when the eager young Ganchuk, the recent Red Army soldier, committed poet and orator at army political meetings, had plunged into higher learning with the undimmed keenness of a bright boy in high school 鈥� these toy sages also took part in the battles, struck blows, lashed out, exposed their opponents and ordered them to lay down their arms.