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Butterflies Die in Russia
Paperback
General FictionHistorical Fiction
ISBN13: 9781291515763
Publisher: Senliz Publication
Published: Sep 28 2026
Pages: 136
Weight: 0.42
Height: 0.29 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Some exiles lose their country. Some women lose their names. Some lovers cross the boundary of death.
In the title novella, a boy's final secret meeting with his fugitive father becomes the wound around which an entire family builds its life. Years later, he travels to Ruskeala, deep in the frozen forests of Karelia, to recover the letters and remains of a man who sought refuge in the Soviet Union-only to find imprisonment, forced labor, censorship, and regret.
Tavous Khanom Ahou follows Rokhsareh, a young woman born into a world governed by class, reputation, and male power. Betrayed, violated, and abandoned in the winter night, she remakes herself as the legendary Tavous Khanom Ahou. Her beauty becomes both armor and burden as she moves toward revenge, love, and the reclamation of her own name.
In Gravemate, a lonely man discovers his estranged beloved rising from a shallow grave with a sapling growing through her body. As he carries her home, memory fractures, guilt speaks through the dead, and love draws him toward a truth he has spent years refusing to face.
Moving from Urmia to Soviet Karelia, and from historical realism into psychological Gothic and magical realism, Butterflies Die in Russia is a haunting collection about exile, political disillusionment, patriarchal violence, grief, guilt, and the human longing to return-to a homeland, to a lost self, or to the arms of the dead.
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