Come to sophie collision . Or is me, sophie shall not say, ang, times of trouble way turned to art for comfort or return to literature for wisdom. Home, i guess, todays the worlds literature, demi urge, master storyteller and noble prize winner, or hunt palmer or hunt by milk novelist recipient only a 2006 noble prize and literature. Its really great to have you with us once again. 12 years later, great pleasure height. I am also very happy to address my direction reader. So i just got my copy out basically 2 days ago, and im like, deep into this book. Most of the russian readers are gonna get it this week. So its like a huge thing. Lets dive right into this. Okay. Latest novel that came out in russia, knights of plague. It is about a plague outbreak on a fictional, ottoman island. And, you know, using sang and interviews that you pondered on this novel for 40 years new to, for years to write it. No pandemic was inside back then. And if you chose this topic for your book and you sort o
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