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Sid Chandran

Teenage Sydney reader and writer, son of Miles Franklin-winning novelist Shankari Chandran; co-interviewer with his mother at Malcolm Knox's The Second Child launch and contributor to the Crip Stories anthology.

Sep 29, 2026

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We have Felice.
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Thank you.
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Thank you for having me in my apartment.
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I hope you won't regret it.
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The first friend begins in Stalin's Soviet Union in 1938 with the protagonist Vasyl Mertsov trying to protect his young fam whilst serving his childhood friend, Lavrentiy Beria.
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Now Beria is a powerful leader in Sarn's inner zone, a man of many cruelties and even greater ambitions, who is quickly climbing the Pollock Euro hierarchy.
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The second child returns to this same world seven years later, at the end of World War II, and this time the story belongs to Vasil's youngest daughter Melo, who has returned from exile and is adopted into the Beria household.

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