Nadya is Dead and Stalin in Sorrow

‘[Stalin] was too intelligent not to know that people always commit suicide in order to punish someone…’ wrote his daughter Svetlana, so he kept asking whether it was true he had been inconsiderate, hadn’t he loved her? (p. 93)

この本が読みにくいとすれば、それは登場人物の多さが理由ではなくて、ロシア名の通称・愛称だな。