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The novel opens with four fast-paced chapters describing the
Turkish siege of Bayazit, an historic episode from the last Russo-Turkish war. After a harrowing depiction of the battle, its outcome is left in suspense as chapter five suddenly shifts the focus to an earlier time to tell the story of a
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