At the Russian restaurant: Audio edition

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

Listen to Lee Kofman read aloud her short story ‘At the Russian restaurant’, a vivid tale of love, belonging and alternative lives.

This story appears in Griffith Review 69: The European Exchange (you can read the story here).

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