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On his way back to Russia after some years spent in the West, Grigory Mikhailovich Litvinov, the son of a retired official of merchant stock, stops over in Baden-Baden to meet his fiancee Tatyana. However, a chance encounter with his old flame, the manipulative Irina - now married to a general and a prominent figure in aristocratic expatriate circles - unearths feelings buried deep inside the young man's heart, derailing his plans for the future and throwing his life into turmoil.

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Smoke: New Translation

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    A Paperback / softback by Ivan Turgenev, Michael Pursglove

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      Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 18/07/2013
      ISBN13: 9781847493163, 978-1847493163
      ISBN10: 1847493165
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      Book Synopsis
      On his way back to Russia after some years spent in the West, Grigory Mikhailovich Litvinov, the son of a retired official of merchant stock, stops over in Baden-Baden to meet his fiancee Tatyana. However, a chance encounter with his old flame, the manipulative Irina - now married to a general and a prominent figure in aristocratic expatriate circles - unearths feelings buried deep inside the young man's heart, derailing his plans for the future and throwing his life into turmoil.

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      Turgenev to me is the greatest writer there ever was. -- Ernest Hemingway

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