Lostlingual by Dinara Rasuleva ODESSA STORIES by ISAAC BABEL cobblestoned old towns and storied

cobblestoned old towns and storied Silk Road cities – not to mention Georgian wine

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judgment and an eye for telling detail' – David Aaronovitch

capturing the diverse experiences set in Russia

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Lostlingual by Dinara Rasuleva ODESSA STORIES by ISAAC BABEL cobblestoned old towns and storiedLostlingual by Dinara Rasuleva is the first volume of the sdvig series, dedicated to translingual avant garde writing. In this volume, Rasuleva, a Berlin based poet, returns to Tatar, the language of her childhood. She had used it only rarely as an adult, and never before as a creative writer the national language of her people, smothered by Russian colonialism. She sets herself the goal of composing poetry in Tatar as she remembers it, without