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Helena Marsh novels volume 1
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Art expert Helena Marsh flies to Budapest to buy back a Titian painting for the wealthy octogenarian Geza Marton. There are multiple bidders for the painting, including some dangerous Slavs. Soon there are also dead bodies, and a complicated history that leads Helena to men Marton knew in Vorkuta, one of Stalin's notorious gulags.
2) Zuleikha
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A sweeping, multi-award winning novel set in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution, as gangs of marauding soldiers terrorise and plunder the countryside.
Zuleikha, the 'pitiful hen', is living in the home of her brutal husband and despotic mother-in-law in a small Tatar village. When her husband is executed by communist soldiers for hiding grain, she is arrested and sent into exile in Siberia. In the first gruelling winter, hundreds die of hunger,...
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