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Ksenia Klimova

Ksenia Klimova is a Russian writer. Her work has appeared in Present Imperfect: Stories by Russian Women (1996).

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A Marriage of Convenience

Written in the late 1980s in the enthusiasm accompanying Mikhail Gorbachev's reforms, Ksenia Klimova's short story looks instead at the alienation and capricious social climate of central Moscow, where love is merely a business transaction.