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Governor General's (French) 2011 · Winner
Kolia
L'homme blanc
Perrine Leblanc · 30 when first published
Novel · 213 pages · Historical, Politics
AI-generated summary:Kolia, born in a labour camp in the mountains of eastern Siberia and raised in Stalin's prisons, is taken under the wing of Iossif, a prisoner from Western Europe; released in his late teens, he joins a Moscow circus and becomes a mute clown.