The Earth and Sky of Jacques Dorme: A novel - Couverture souple

Makine, Andreï

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 155970828X ISBN 13 : 9781559708289

Editeur : Arcade Publishing, 2007

Synopsis

Unusual book

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur :

Andre? Makine was born in Krasnoyarsk in Siberia in 1957, but sought asylum in France in 1987. While initially sleeping rough in Paris he was writing his first novel, A HERO'S DAUGHTER, which was eventually published in 1990 after Makine pretended it had been translated from the Russian, since no publisher believed he could have written it in French. With his third novel, ONCE UPON A RIVER LOVE, he was finally published as a 'French' writer, and with his fourth, LE TESTAMENT FRANCAIS, he became the first author to win both of France's top literary prizes, the Prix Goncourt and Prix M?dicis. Since then Andre? Makine has written THE CRIME OF OLGA ARBYELINA, REQUIEM FOR THE EAST and A LIFE'S MUSIC, which won the Grand Prix RTL-Lire, and has been published to great acclaim all over the world.

Présentation de l'éditeur :

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.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Arcade Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2007
• ISBN 10: 155970828X
• ISBN 13: 9781559708289
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 216