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The First Friend

The First Friend

by Malcolm Knox

Format
Paperback
Category
Fiction
Publisher
Allen & Unwin
Publish Date
September 2024

A tour de force set in 1938 Stalin Soviet Union, this chilling black comedy it is at once a satire and a thriller, a survivor's tale in which a father has to walk a tightrope every day to save his family from a monster and a monstrous society.

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