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“The protagonist, Erast Fandorin, a gentleman sleuth, travels to 19th-century Yokohama and gets into all sorts of adventures. There are 2 volumes. The first is constructed as a haiku, the Japanese three-liner of 17 syllables, with a non-transparent meaning. There are 17 chapters and the end is totally non-transparent. The second volume, much bigger, explains the mystery. Captain Rybnikov is an important character there. And my novel starts with the same paragraph as Kuprin’s novella.” Read more...
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