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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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