'versts' in Between Parentheses: Essays, Articles and Speeches, 1998-2003 | Bookmarker

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(noun) a Russian unit of distance equal to 0.6629 mile (1.067 kilometers)

in Turgenev, Carpentier’s precursor, the young students aren’t orphans and the revolution is thousands of versts away

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—p.182 by Roberto Bolaño

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