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The Underground, Paperback / softback Book

The Underground Paperback / softback

Paperback / softback

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'I am Moscow's underground son, the result of one too many nights on the town.' So begins the story of Mbobo, the precocious 12-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 who came to compete in the 1980 Moscow Olympics, Mbobo must navigate the complexities of being a fatherless, mixed- raced boy in the shaky terrain of the Soviet Union before its collapse.

The Underground was named one of 'the best Russian novels of the 21st Century' (Continent Magazine).

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