Книга: Crace Jim «The Pesthouse»
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Серия: "-" A devastated America exists in an imagined future. Its technologies are forgotten, its communities have splintered and its refugees, reversing the course of history, travel eastwards in search of safety and a new start. Among them are Franklin and Margaret, young, bereft, forced together by circumstance; but finding that love, courage and determination can endure even as a country breaks slowly apart. Издательство: "Picador" (2013)
ISBN: 978-1-4472-5034-0 Купить за 798 руб в My-shop |
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