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Both a psychological thriller and a touching love story, this rich novel from the author of "Dreams of My Russian Summers" is set mostly in an Africa bitterly struggling to shed its colonial chains.

A deeply moving meditation on memory, history, love, and art by the author of Dreams of My Russian SummersIn The Life of an Unknown Man, Andreï Makine explores what truly matters in life through the prism of Russia's past and present.Shutov, a disenchanted writer, revisits St. Petersburg after twenty years of exile in Paris, hoping to recapture his youth. Instead, he meets Volsky, an old man who tells him his extraordinary story: of surviving ...

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Did sex bring down the Iron Curtain? An orphan reflects on the unbreakable bond between love and freedom in the Soviet Union...

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L'amore e la Storia. L'amore, magari breve, che tuttavia lascia un'impronta indelebile nell'esistenza di chi lo vive, e la Storia, che procede senza concedere tregue e lasciare scampo, seminando torti e ingiustizie. Otto capitoli e otto momenti della vita di un uomo, dall'infanzia passata in un orfanotrofio russo negli anni Sessanta, all'età adulta, quando il sistema in cui inizialmente aveva creduto si dissolve. E in ciascuna di queste narraz...

A beautifully observed and moving account of love and the human spirit in the Soviet eraIn 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 the fleeting moments that have never left him-a scorching day in a blossoming orchard with a woman who loves ...

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En contemplant les plaines blanches au-delà de la Volga avec toi, Vika, j’ai découvert la grâce fragile des femmes et celle du monde. Moi qui croyais à la doctrine éternellement vivante du communisme, à la ville blanche et fraternelle promise par mon institutrice, j’ai alors compris ce qu’il y manquait : l’amour… Contre la folie des hommes, aimer n’est-il pas une forme de résistance ? Andreï Makine, né en Sibérie, est notamment l’auteur du Te...

Ravishing' (The Times): a compelling, brilliant novel from a master of European literature, a bestseller in France.

Je n’aurais jamais imaginé un destin aussi généreusement ouvert sur le sens de la vie. Une existence où se sont incarnés la fidélité et le courage, l’intense volupté d’être et la douleur, la révolte et la sérénité. Un homme qui a vécu à l’encontre de la haine, a aimé au milieu de la pire sauvagerie des guerres. Un soldat qui a su pardonner sans rien oublier. A. M.

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A brief but extraordinarily powerful novel by the author of Dreams of My Russian Summers and Requiem for a Lost Empire, Music of a Life is set in the period just before, and two decades after, World War II.Alexeï Berg's father is a well-known dramatist, his mother a famous opera singer. But during Stalin's reign of terror in the 1930s they, like millions of other Russians, come under attack for their presumed lack of political purity. Harassed...

The fascinating story of a young Russian filmmaker's attempts to portray Catherine the Great, before and after the collapse of the Soviet UnionCatherine the Great's life seems to have been made for the cinema-her rise to power, her reportedly countless love affairs and wild sexual escapades, the episodes of betrayal, revenge, and even murder-there's no shortage of historical drama. But Oleg Erdmann, a young Russian filmmaker, seeks to discover...

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