The title girl of this book's chapter Zoya declares "you can't hang al 190 mil ion of us" as she is executed  for arson. Another of its characters is Kurt Gerstein, who kil s himself after failing to sabotage shipments  of Zyklon B. It opens with a description of a "squat black telephone," which it compares to an octopus. Its  chapter "A Pianist fr
The title girl of this book's chapter Zoya declares "you can't hang al 190 mil ion of us" as she is executed  for arson. Another of its characters is Kurt Gerstein, who kil s himself after failing to sabotage shipments  of Zyklon B. It opens with a description of a "squat black telephone," which it compares to an octopus. Its  chapter "A Pianist from Kilgore" describes van Cliburn winning the Tchaikovsky prize. This book consists  of eighteen paired stories, which are label ed "Pincer Movements" and which frequently concern the  relationship between the filmmaker Roman Karmen, his wife Elena Konstantinovskaya, and the  composer Dmitri Shostakovich. Its prologue, "Steel in Motion," describes a metaphorical telephone  exchange system that links its vast array of characters across the 20th century in Germany and the Soviet  Union. For 10 points, name this 2005 novel by Wil iam T. Vol mann.
The title girl of this book's chapter Zoya declares "you can't hang al 190 mil ion of us" as she is executed  for arson.
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