Early works of an author who has hit the big-time are often reissued for reasons more venal than literary. None of the pre- and post- publications of Tracy Chevalier come anywhere near the standard of The Girl with the Pearl Earring, but that...
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The fascinating story of a young Russian filmmaker's attempts to portray Catherine the Great, before and after the collapse of the Soviet Union
Catherine the Great's life seems to have been made for the cinema - her rise to power; her reportedly...
Andreï Makine ouvre son roman sur une scène rêvée de notre Occident. Un fantasme qui nous fera mesurer l'étendue de notre dépaysement. Les personnages appartiennent à un autre monde: le pays du grand blanc, au bord...
In Soviet Russia the desire for freedom is also a desire for the freedom to love. Lovers live as outlaws, traitors to the collective spirit, and love is more intense when it feels like an act of resistance. Now entering middle age, an orphan recalls...
Russe de sang et français de cœur, Andreï Makine s'est approprié l'histoire de notre pays. Sa fine plume retrace les contours de cette France qui fascine, ses coutumes, ses personnalités, ses contradictions ; et sa langue, ses mots, ses...
Émigré à Paris, Kim s'adresse à son ami d'enfance, Arkadi. Avant d'être séparés à l'âge de quatorze ans, les deux garçons ont grandi ensemble dans un hameau communautaire, non loin de Leningrad. Kim...
Современная русская и зарубежная проза
Confessions of a Lapsed Standard-Bearer aka Confessions of a Fallen Standard-Bearer
Andreï Makine's second novel, a luminous elegy for the innocence and certainties of childhood and a stunning portrait of life in Soviet Russia during the Cold...
In an era when everything is an event, and nothing just happens naturally, it's hard not to be suspicious of the a novel that is the first ever to win both the Prix Goncourt and the Prix Medicis, by a Russian émigré who has been compared...
Cuando Andrei Makine llegó a Francia desde su Siberia natal escribía ya en francés. Y en esa lengua redactó sus dos primeras novelas, que sólo consiguió publicar, después de que varias editoriales las rechazaran, gracias a un engaño:...
Love for another person. Love for humanity as a whole. Are the two compatible or mutually exclusive? In his most ambitious novel since Dreams of My Russian Summers, Andreï Makine takes us into the heart of Africa. His hero is Elias...