And now here's Han Ong reading "The Fugitive" by Ludmila Ulitskaya, translated from the Russian by Bella Shayevich.

"The Fugitive.

At nine o'clock one morning in June, Captain Popov rang the doorbell.

No one answered for a long time, but finally he heard the sound of scurrying.

scurrying."Who's there? Who is it?" A plaintive female voice said.

The door opened a crack, the chain left on.

Sychev and Emelyanenko shifted their weight, itching to start, finish, and get out of there as fast as they could.

He's out in rural Russia, which is new to him as well, and I, I feel like the story at that moment becomes a different story in a way.