Джанет Фитч: The Revolution of Marina M.

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Paint It Black

White Oleander

Janet Fitch’s first novel, White Oleander, a #1 bestseller and Oprah’s Book Club selection, has been translated into twenty-eight languages and was made into a feature film. Her most recent novel, Paint It Black, hit bestseller lists across the country and has also been made into a film. She lives with her husband in Los Angeles. She is currently working on the second part of Marina’s story.

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Cover photographs: Russian church © Allister Clark/Arcangel; woman © Miguel Sobreira

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All poetry from the Russian, including the epigraph selection from Anna Akhmatova’s Northern Elegies and Marina Tsvetaeva’s “We shall not escape Hell,” is translated by Boris Dralyuk, except for the lines from Mikhail Lermontov’s “A Prophecy,” which is translated by Anatoly Lieberman. Used by permission.

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