The Crime of Olga Arbyelina - Couverture souple

Makine, Andrei

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0340751398 ISBN 13 : 9780340751398

Editeur : Sceptre, 1999

Synopsis

In the summer of 1947, a small town outside Paris is rocked by scandal when a member of its Russian emigre community drowns in a boating incident and the woman with him, an enigmatic White Russian princess, is charged with his murder. But Olga Arbelina is acquitted. Then the story unfolds of the preceding year and gradually a different, secret and more shocking crime emerges - Olga, separated from her husband, exiled from her homeland and convinced her life has reached a dead end, has allowed her adolescent son to commit incest with her, believing he has drugged her to sleep. Horrified at her own complicity yet oddly paralysed, she does nothing to halt it. Until she thinks they have been observed.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Andrei Makine was born in Siberia in 1957, and taught at the University of Novgorod. In 1987 he left the Soviet Union and sought asylum in Paris, where he lived rough before finding teaching work. His first novel was published in France in 1990, once he'd pretended he'd only translated it from another Russian's original. His third was published under his own name and Olga Arbelina's Crime is his fifth.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Sceptre
• Date d'édition: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0340751398
• ISBN 13: 9780340751398
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 304
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible