Andreï Makine
Author
Publisher
Arcade Pub
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Publisher
Arcade Publishing
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
A moving, utterly captivating love story: Romeo and Juliet as if told by Chekhov or Dostoevsky. In a remote Russian village a woman waits, as she has waited for almost three decades, for the man she loves to return. Near the end of World War II, nineteen-year-old Boris Koptek left the village to join the Russian army, swearing to the sixteen-year-old love of his life, Vera, that as soon as he returned they would marry. Young Boris, who with his engineering...
Author
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"'This novel about hunting an escapee from Stalinist gulag reads like a Siberian Heart of Darkness.' -Julian Barnes. On the far eastern borders of the Soviet Union, in the sunset of Stalin's reign, soldiers are training for a war that could end all wars, for in the atomic age man has sown the seeds of his own destruction. Among them is Pavel Gartsev, a reservist. Orphaned, scarred by the last great war and unlucky in love, he is an instant victim...
Author
Series
Publisher
Arcade Publishing
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
In this remarkable novel, which spans eighty years of the twentieth century, Andreï Makine describes, beautifully but unsparingly, the almost uninterrupted succession of violence, misery, and horror that has been visited on the Russian people since the October Revolution of 1917. For those quick to forget, or too young to remember, he paints a graphic portrait of those years in a three-generational novel that is as moving as it is revealing.
A young...
Author
Publisher
Arcade Pub
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
A son drugs his mother so he can have sex with her. The woman, an exiled Russian princess in 1940s France, plays along, pretending to be unconscious, because the boy is a hemophiliac and will die soon. By the author of Dreams of My Russian Summers.
Author
Publisher
Arcade Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Jean-Claude Servan-Schreiber enlisted in the French army at the outset of World War II and quickly rose to the rank of lieutenant. Despite his patriotism and courage in defending his country, in which he narrowly escaped death several times, he suffered the bigotry of his fellow soldiers until he was expelled from the army for being Jewish. He sought exile in Spain and was deported and interned in a concentration camp before he managed to join the...
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Time Warner Trade Pub
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
They are virtual brothers, Arkady and Alyosha, young pioneers in Stalin's postwar world, marching to the clarion call of socialism, to the stirring beat of the drums. The future, they are assured, is bright and beautiful. But what, then, are those endless miles of barbed wire they encounter everywhere along their route?
This is the moving, two-generational tale of two families, those of Yakov Zinger and Pyotr Yevdokimov, fathers of the two young...
Author
Series
Publisher
Arcade Publishing
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
With this novel, Andreï Makine, whose work has been compared to that of Balzac, Chekhov, Pasternak, and Proust, brings to a stunning conclusion his epic trilogy that began with Dreams of My Russian Summers and continued with Requiem for a Lost Empire.
The novel opens in 1942, in a burning, gutted Stalingrad, where the German and Russian armies are locked in a struggle to the death. Amid these ruins, a French pilot and a nurse, also French, are engaged...
Author
Publisher
Arcade publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Siberia, early seventies. The narrator, a thirteen-year-old orphan, saves Vardan, a young Armenian boy, from discrimination and being attacked by fellow Soviet students in their schoolyard. A friendship is born. When Vardan brings him home, the narrator enters a world of Armenian families living in the periphery of a prison where their husbands, sons, and fathers are detained. It is there, in the warmth of their home, that the narrator meets courage,...
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Young filmmaker Oleg Erdmann spends years writing a screenplay about the enigmatic Catherine the Great only to fail to capture the true essence of her. As the Soviet Union changes before him, new opportunities arise for him to bring her to life.
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
An orphan reflects on the unbreakable bond between love and freedom in the Soviet Union.
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 the fleeting moments that have never left him: a scorching day in a blossoming orchard with a woman who loves another;...
Author
Publisher
Bernard Grasset
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Français
Description
"Ce roman d'une amitié de jeunesse révèle un épisode crucial de la vie d'Andreï Makine. Le narrateur, qui vit dans un orphelinat de Sibérie, devient le garde du corps d'un garçon de son âge, Vardan, persécuté par les autres en raison de sa pureté et de sa santé fragile. En suivant ces deux adolescents, nous arrivons chez Vardan dans un quartier déshérité, le Bout du diable, où réside une petite communauté d'Arméniens venus soutenir...