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"One comes away from these stories with a sense of the boggling vastness of Ukrainian steppes and the stink of Black Sea mud....And yet, surprisingly, Neider misses an opportunity to really show us these bewildering regions. Instead, our eyes are frequently taken off of the surroundings and focused on a melodrama....Both novellas are so saturated with what must be the fruits of real experience that it's a pity to find it here only peeking through the surface, hinting at greater depths below."Neider, Charles is the author of 'Grotto Berg Two Novellas' with ISBN 9780815411239 and ISBN 0815411235.
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