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conversations.value: What is a description for a book titled If I Told You Once about Ilana, European, Russian with the genre: Literature & Fiction, United States?
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conversations.value: the author's debut novel, If I Told You Once , introduces us to Ilana, a peasant girl living sometime at the beginning of the 20th century, in an unnamed European town so gray that "the color of an egg yolk is something of a miracle." This is a place as timeless and vivid as fairy tales, with figures from Russian folklore cast against real-world horrors like rape, cannibalism, and genocide.