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As they brought the foreign world to their Soviet and American readers

bountiful orchards

and discovering at last a strange triumph in loss

But I do know that those two things are connected

Caroline is a reliable guide using food as her passport to enter lives

Goat Song by Konstantin Vaginov zamyatin As they brought the foreignKonstantin Vaginov was an early and exemplary figure of Soviet modernist writing in all its agonised and glorious contradictions. Born into an educated middle class family, Vaginov came of age with the Revolution. His novels of the late 1920s and early '30s are daringly experimental and tragically nostalgic, using mercilessly ironic prose to mourn the loss of prerevolutionary intellectual culture. Adrift in the brave new Soviet world, Vaginov's