Set in
- ★★ primary
- ★Galicia★ primary
- Galicia · UkraineGalicia, Habsburg Empire 1902; infant death opens this five-lives novel
- Vienna
- Moscow
- Berlin
- Moscow · RussiaStalinist Moscow; the protagonist flees Vienna for the Soviet Union and fears her husband's arrest
Also set in Berlin
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