Galina Petrovna’s Three-Legged Dog Story
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Оглавление
Andrea Bennett. Galina Petrovna’s Three-Legged Dog Story
Copyright
Dedication
Author’s Note
Glossary
1. A Typical Monday Afternoon
2. The Azov House of Culture Elderly Club
3. Mitya the Exterminator
4. A Chase
5. A Visit
6. The Plan
7. Grigory Mikhailovich
8. A Train Ride
9. A Rescue
10. Guests
11. A Date with Mitya
12. A Letter from Vasya
13. Mitya’s Angel
14. The Ministry
15. Deep in the SIZO
16. A Minor Triumph
17. The Cheese Mistress
18. The Third Way
19. A Dog’s Life
20. The Return
21. Of Butterflies, Dogs and Men
22. Rov Avia
23. Vasya’s Pussy
24. The Sunshine SIZO
25. Chickens Roost
26. The End of the Beginning
27. The End
Acknowledgements
About the Author
About the Publisher
Отрывок из книги
For my family, especially Louis
However, everything else in this book, while inspired by my memories of the people and geography of Russia, is a work of fiction, and should be treated as such.
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The door opened slightly, and in the festering half-light a peachy soft face looked out at him, hesitantly. After a moment the door opened wider on its squealing hinges and out stepped, not the stinking old alcoholic with vomit down his chin, but an angel come to earth. Mitya gasped and felt a small pool of saliva collect in the corner of his mouth and then trickle gently on to his chin. He had never seen a girl so beautiful and so perfect. Blonde hair framed a delicate face with apple cheeks, a small freckled nose and eyes that seemed to stroke a place deep within his stomach. And here she was, in the stinking bog, with a twist of yellow toilet paper stuck to her perfect, peach-coloured plastic slipper.
‘I’m sorry,’ she lisped, looking up at him through gluey black lashes.
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