Publication

2015 - Restless Books

Language

English

Word Count

70,500 words, Guess

Page Count

282 pages

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Description

""I am Moscow's underground son, the result of one too many nights on the town." So declares Mbobo, the unforgettable twelve-year-old narrator of this captivating novel by exiled Uzbek author and BBC journalist Hamid Ismailov. Born to a Siberian woman and an African athlete competing in the 1980 Moscow Olympics, Mbobo spends his days navigating the subterranean arteries of the Metro and the challenges of being a fatherless, mixed-raced boy in the precarious days of the collapse of the Soviet Union" --Page 4 of cover.

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  • UndergroundRestless Books2015

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