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The Homecoming

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Episode 1: The Homecoming

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By Olga Grushin. After years in New York, Gregory returns to Russia to visit his mother.

By Olga Grushin. After many years in New York, Gregory returns to Russia to visit his mother. He has a plane to catch - but waiting for the Moscow train is full of surprises.

Gregory is a successful New York businessman who has returned to Russia for the first time in many years to visit his mother. He takes a trip out to his mother's dacha in the country and then heads for the local station. He has an urgent plane to catch. Moscow is only two hours away - but only if the train comes. And while he waits, he has a strange encounter...  

Written by Olga Grushin and read by Alan Cox. This is one of three stories inspired by railway stations, each by a different writer. 

Olga Grushin was born in Moscow in 1971 and spent her childhood in Moscow and Prague. In 1989 she became the first Soviet citizen to enrol for a full-time degree in the United States while retaining Soviet citizenship.  In 2006 she was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for New Writers and named one of Granta's Best Young American Novelists in 2007. She has published two novels: The Dream Life of Sukhanov (2006) and The Concert Ticket in April 2010. The Homecoming is her first story for radio. Olga lives in Washington D.C.

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