“Narrow Escape,” by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

By Aleksandr SolzhenitsynSeptember 27, 202614 min read

Fiction by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, in English for the first time: The police lieutenant appeared to be writing down exactly what Gleb was telling him, but relying upon completely different words.

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