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Steve Evans has been a gardener, bartender, gold prospector, mushroom farmer, social worker, librarian, and journalist. He lives in a small town in New Zealand, but writes books based in Europe. He has published Evilheart, The Kleiber Monster, Savonarola's Bones, Demented, The Russian Idea, Tobi's Game and Kaos. He dreams of a life in Europe. ...more

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Demons

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Steve Evans said: " Few people would think that Dostoevsky can be funny, but many pages of this book had me howling with laughter. This is a truly great novel that starts lightly and descends into the depths of depravity. I first read Demons in the 1970s in a different ...more "

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The Secret History of the Mongols (Harvard-Yenching Institute Studies)

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