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Kolia
by Perrine Leblanc
translated from the French
by David Scott Hamilton
House of Anansi
www.houseofanansi.com

T

he story of a boy
born in a Soviet
Gulag and destined
for a life of hardship,
Kolia was written by a female
Canadian author fascinated
by Russia and the fall of the
Soviet Bloc. We talked to the
novel’s translator, David Scott
Hamilton, about the book and
the process of translation.

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