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The underground : a novel

Author: Hamid Ismailov; Carol Ermakova
Publisher: Brooklyn, New York : Restless Books, 2015. ©2013
Edition/Format:  Print book : Fiction : EnglishView all editions and formats
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""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  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Fiction
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Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Hamid Ismailov; Carol Ermakova
ISBN: 9781632060440 1632060442
OCLC Number: 903763487
Description: 279 pages ; 21 cm
Other Titles: Mbobo.
Responsibility: Hamid Ismailov ; translated from the Russian by Carol Ermakova.

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""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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