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J. is a smuggler living in Russia, making his living fencing the flotsam of communism's collapse. In Istanbul he takes a commission to capture an endangered Russian butterfly and decides to use it as an opportunity to smuggle V., his Russian fan who does not have any papers, back into her homeland. Within the dock of Odessa, she disappears, and J. persists alone to a tiny town on the Dark Sea. Characters from V. begin to arrive, so that J. hunts the butterfly, he seeks a way to lure V. back into his life. Similar parts bittersweet love account, international intrigue, and one man's pursuit to write the perfect love letter, Nocturnal Butterflies of the Russian Empire, had written The Tennessean, is "an amazing jewel of a tale...that winks with wit [and] wears its astonishing craftsmanship lightly."