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Hella
Alena Machoninová · 43 when first published
Novel · 262 pages · Historical, Autofiction
AI-generated summary:A Czech scholar of Russian tries to reconstruct the life of Helena 'Hella' Frischerová, a Czech Jewish woman long thought executed in Stalin's Great Terror, who in fact spent ten years in the Gulag.