Last chapter
THROUGH a wooden gate, down a walkway that squeezes between tomato plants and grapevines, a diminutive widow, Anna Penkina, lives in a tiny flat. She was born in another flat in the same one-storey house and, except for a break during the second world war, she has spent all of her 68 years there.
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