Olga Arbyelina is a princess who fled Russia during the revolution; now she lives in a town near Paris tending to her hemophiliac son, keeping ghosts at bay-an existence hollowed out by history. The...
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...
In Makine's fifth novel, the memories of an unnamed narrator weave through the 20th century as he recalls episodes in the life of his family-experiences that include those of a battlefield doctor in...
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...
A novel of love and growing up by Andreï Makine, whose bestselling Dreams of My Russian Summerswas hailed by the Los Angeles Timesas one of the "best autobiographical books of the century."In the...
A superb new novel by the author of Dreams of My Russian Summersand Requiem for a Lost Empire,set in the period just before, and two decades after, World War II.“Makine is without doubt one of the...
Ce roman a l’originalit? de nous offrir de la France une vision mythique et lointaine, ? travers les nombreux r?cits que Charlotte Lemonnier, «?gar?e dans l’immensit? neigeuse de la Russie», raconte...
"Il semblait que le monde allait tressaillir et qu'une f?te sans fin allait commencer ici et sur la terre enti?re".Olia est n?e, un jour de novembre, dans cette atmosph?re de liesse de l'apr?s-guerre...
Andre? Makine ouvre son roman sur une sc?ne r?v?e de notre Occident. Un fantasme qui nous fera mesurer l'?tendue de notre d?paysement. Les personnages appartiennent ? un autre monde: le pays du grand...
After a problematic start, Andrei Makine is getting better with every new book. His earlier setbacks were partly due to the snobbery of the French, who did not believe that a Russian could write...
Je me savais a present incapable de dire la verite de notre temps. Je n'etais ni un temoin objectif, ni un historien, ni surtout un sage moraliste. Je pouvais tout simplement reprendre ce recit...
Andre? Makine: " L'?criture est une vision "«C'est alors que, d'une voix presque ?teinte, en acceptant l'?chec et ne demandant plus rien, je parlai de Jacques Dorme. Je r?ussis ? dire sa vie en...
«Je m'?veille, j'ai r?v? d'une musique.» – Andre? Makine«Un tr?s beau roman d'une ?criture ?pur?e qui vise l'?motion et touche au c?ur.» – L'ExpressAu c?ur de la temp?te, dans l'immensit? blanche de...
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...
