: "When your interpreter is weeping, you know you're being told a sad story"
I interviewed a caregiver
at an orphanage in Omsk, a run-down Detroit of a city in Siberia. (Dostoevsky was sent
there as a punishment for revolutionary activity, which tells you something about the
place.) The caregiver had brought a little boy named Kirill (pronounced Key-REAL)
because she wanted me to know his story.( ... )
I interviewed a caregiver
at an orphanage in Omsk, a run-down Detroit of a city in Siberia. (Dostoevsky was sent
there as a punishment for revolutionary activity, which tells you something about the
place.) The caregiver had brought a little boy named Kirill (pronounced Key-REAL)
because she wanted me to know his story.( ... )