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Centre of Gravity

Victoria Tokareva

Translated by Michael Glenny

‘For reasons I don’t want to go into, I decided to commit suicide.’

Victoria Tokareva

Victoria Tokareva lives in Moscow. She is prolific author of fiction and screenplays. A collection of stories of her short stories, The Talisman and Other Stories has been translated into English by Rosamund Bartlett.

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Translated by Michael Glenny

Michael Glenny was a lecturer in Russian studies and a translator of Russian literature. He achieved notoriety with his translation of Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita in 1967.

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