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I didn''t read your books. I licked them, I rubbed them all over my naked body and licked them.

Protasov, detached and idealistic, wants only to immerse himself in chemical experiments to perfect mankind. He''s more or less oblivious to the voracious advances of the half-crazed widow Melaniya and his best friend''s unrelenting pursuit of his wife, let alone the cholera epidemic and the starving mob at his gates. While Nanny fusses round, Protasov''s admiring circle, variously skeptical, romantic and lovesick, spar over culture and the cosmos. Only Liza, neurotic and patronized, feels the suffering of the peasantry and senses that their own privileged world is in jeopardy.

Gone? They''re everywhere. Have you heard about the riots? The starvation and the flagrant disregard of authority. This disregard is building walls and barriers between us all. And they are massing. The crowds of angry people. And the hate... the hate between us all... kills everything.<

Children of the Sun

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    A Paperback / softback by Maxim Gorky, Andrew Upton

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      Publisher Faber & Faber
      Published 18 April 2013
      ISBN-13 9780571304875
      978-0571304875
      ISBN-10 0571304877

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      I didn''t read your books. I licked them, I rubbed them all over my naked body and licked them.

      Protasov, detached and idealistic, wants only to immerse himself in chemical experiments to perfect mankind. He''s more or less oblivious to the voracious advances of the half-crazed widow Melaniya and his best friend''s unrelenting pursuit of his wife, let alone the cholera epidemic and the starving mob at his gates. While Nanny fusses round, Protasov''s admiring circle, variously skeptical, romantic and lovesick, spar over culture and the cosmos. Only Liza, neurotic and patronized, feels the suffering of the peasantry and senses that their own privileged world is in jeopardy.

      Gone? They''re everywhere. Have you heard about the riots? The starvation and the flagrant disregard of authority. This disregard is building walls and barriers between us all. And they are massing. The crowds of angry people. And the hate... the hate between us all... kills everything.<

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