At the Russian restaurant

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  • Published 20200804
  • ISBN: 978-1-922212-50-4
  • Extent: 304pp
  • Paperback (234 x 153mm), eBook

Listen to Lee Kofman reading ‘At the Russian restaurant’.


AT MY REQUEST, Slavik is taking me to a Russian restaurant in the heart of Melbourne.

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