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Inner Mongolia

Tony Wood

  • The Life of Insects by Victor Pelevin, translated by Andrew Bromfield
  • The Clay Machine-Gun by Victor Pelevin, translated by Andrew Bromfield
  • A Werewolf Problem in Central Russia and Other Stories by Victor Pelevin, translated by Andrew Bromfield

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Tony Wood is the deputy editor of New Left Review and the author of Chechnya: The Case for Independence.

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