The Earth and Sky of Jacques Dorme - Couverture rigide

Makine, Andrei

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0340831251 ISBN 13 : 9780340831250

Editeur : Sceptre, 2005

Synopsis

In present-day France a Russian writer recalls his harsh childhood at a Stalingrad orphanage in the 1960s and the old Frenchwoman, a family friend, whose tales fed his dreams of a better world. One story in particular has stayed with him: that of her brief, passionate affair, during World War II, with the French fighter pilot Jacques Dorme, who subsequently died in a plane crash in the Siberian mountains. So the narrator decides to retrace Jacques Dorme's steps, beginning a journey which leads him not only to revisit the land of his birth but also to see his adopted homeland in an unflattering new light. A profound and moving novel about the dangers of ideology and of war, delivered with humour, sensuousness and great lyricism.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Andrei Makine was born in Krasnoyarsk in Siberia in 1957, but has lived in France since seeking asylum there in 1987. His first novel, A Hero's Daughter, was published in 1990 and was followed by Confessions of a Lapsed Standard-Bearer and Once Upon the River Love. Then in 1995 his fourth novel, Le Testament Francais, became the unprecedented winner of both the Prix Goncourt and Prix Medicis and has gone on to sell over a million copies in France alone, and to be published in translation in twenty-nine countries. Its translation into English by Geoffrey Strachan, published by Sceptre in 1997, also won the Scott Moncrieff Prize. Since then Andrei Makine has published The Crime of Olga Arbyelina, Requiem for the East and A Lif's Music, which won the Grand Prix RTL-Lire.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Sceptre
• Date d'édition: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0340831251
• ISBN 13: 9780340831250
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 192
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• Personne responsable: non disponible