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2014 selection · Fiction & literature
The Dead Lake
The Dead Lake by Hamid Ismailov appears in NPR’s 2014 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around tales from around the world, fiction, rather short, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
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