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After working on it for eighteen years, she published it in russia in 2009, and it became an instant bestseller, winning several of the years top literary awards, including the. It took her 18 years to write and was an immediate bestseller in russian when. Bound to wheelchairs and dependent on prosthetic limbs, the physically disabled. I suspect she might be a little insane in a wonderful way. The gray house by mariam petrosyan to other worlds.
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