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The Crime of Olga Arbyelina

Author : Andreï Makine
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1628723319
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (287 download)

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Download or read book The Crime of Olga Arbyelina written by Andreï Makine and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-11-11 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The summer of ’47. In the sleepy town of Villiers-la-Forêt, roughly an hour from Paris, the peaceful radiance of the day is interrupted by the discovery that, along a nearby riverbank, the body of a man has washed up, a gaping wound in his skull. Beside him rests a beautiful, nearly bare-breasted woman, her dress soaked and in tatters. An accident or foul play? A crime of passion? Soon there are almost as many speculations and theories as there are townspeople. The woman, it turns out, is a Russian princess, Olga Arbyelina, a refugee from the Bolshevik revolution who in the 1930s had settled in town along with many of her compatriots. Rumor was that Olga's husband, a dashing prince given to gambling and revels, had deserted her some years after the couple's arrival in France, leaving her alone to care for their young son. About the victim, also a Russian refugee, little is known: many years Olga's elder, he was a taciturn, rather coarse, slightly ridiculous man name Sergei Golets, thought dismissively to be a former horse butcher. What on earth could have brought these two unlikely souls together? Makine meticulously re-creates Olga's past—her enchanted childhood; her pampered youth and fevered, transitory embrace of the revolution; her arduous flight toward freedom; her encounter with the dashing White Army officer who saved her life; her marriage and arrival in France; the birth of her adored son. Love has its limits, its limitations and boundaries. But in a woman of great passion, what do such limits mean when you know that each day may be the last for your son?

The Crime of Olga Arbyelina

Author : Andrei Makine
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book The Crime of Olga Arbyelina written by Andrei Makine and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Crime of Olga Arbyelina

Author : Andreï Makine
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9781611455175
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (551 download)

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Download or read book The Crime of Olga Arbyelina written by Andreï Makine and published by Skyhorse Publishing Inc.. This book was released on 1999 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

World War II in Andreï Makine’s Historiographic Metafiction

Author : Helena Duffy
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004362401
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book World War II in Andreï Makine’s Historiographic Metafiction written by Helena Duffy and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In World War II in Andreï Makine’s Historiographic Metafiction Helena Duffy probes the tension between the Franco-Russian novelist’s commitment to postmodern aesthetics and philosophy of history, and his narrative of Soviet involvement in the struggle against Hitler.

Modern Greek Literature

Author : Gregory Nagy
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113557667X
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (355 download)

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Download or read book Modern Greek Literature written by Gregory Nagy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-06-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays collected in Modern Greek Literature represent the work of young scholars as they expand the range of approaches to modern Greek literature. The contributors vary in their focus from comparative studies to the study of religion or the literature of diaspora. The theoretical questions that the essays raise address both classic and contemporary debates, from genre explorations to the relationship between literature and national identity. Each contribution to this volume represents a fresh look at Greek literature and opens a distinct pathway for further research and consideration. From this collection will arise innumerable opportunities to gain a newer and deeper understanding of a great literary tradition.

The Earth and Sky of Jacques Dorme

Author : Andreï Makine
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1611454832
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (114 download)

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Download or read book The Earth and Sky of Jacques Dorme written by Andreï Makine and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-07-01 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 in a passionate affair that each knows will be hopelessly brief. The pilot, Jacques Dorme, was shot down two years earlier. Imprisoned and sent east to a German POW camp, Dorme made a daring escape and crossed Germany stealthily by night until he arrived in an already devastated Russia, where, having proved his mettle as a pilot, he joined a Russian squadron stationed near Stalingrad. But during the brief time they have together there, the love between Dorme and Alexandra builds and blossoms into a relationship they both know comes but once in a lifetime. Several decades later, the narrator—a Russian exiled in France, a war orphan haunted by his dark childhood and obsessively searching for his roots—travels back to his native land, where in the icy and treacherous wastelands of Siberia he attempts to discover how his life and that of Jacques Dorme are inextricably intertwined.

My Armenian Friend

Author : Andreï Makine
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1914495462
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (144 download)

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Download or read book My Armenian Friend written by Andreï Makine and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2023-12-15 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My Armenian Friend is a moving and nostalgic story about how one friendship can shift our perspective and irrevocably change our lives. Set in Siberia in the 1970s during the decline of the Soviet Empire, the adult narrator looks back on a childhood friendship formed with an Armenian boy called Vardan. The narrator becomes Vardan's protector, for the young Armenian's maturity and sensitivity make him a target for schoolyard bullies. The narrator is welcomed by Vardan's family living in exile in a diverse neighbourhood populated by former prisoners, exhausted adventurers and many who have been forcibly uprooted from their homes. Touching anecdotes characterise this text, and powerful memories blending reality and myth are used to recreate a 'kingdom of Armenia' that will have a lasting impact upon the author.

A Woman Loved

Author : Andreï Makine
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1848668856
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (486 download)

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Download or read book A Woman Loved written by Andreï Makine and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2015-08-06 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catherine the Great's life seems to have been made for the cinema. Countless love affairs and wild sexual escapades, betrayal, revenge, murder - there is no shortage of historical drama. But Oleg Erdmann, a young Russian filmmaker, seeks to discover and portray the real Catherine, her essential, emotional truth. When he is dropped from the film he initially scripted - his name summarily excised from the credits - Erdmann is cast adrift in a changing world. A second chance beckons when an old friend enriched by the capitalist new dawn invites him to refashion his opus for a television serial. But Erdmann is made acutely aware that the market exerts its own forms of censorship. While he comes to accept that each age must cast Catherine in its own image, one question continues to nag at him. Was the empress, whose sexual appetites were sated with favours bought with titles and coin, ever truly loved? In his search for an answer, Erdmann will find a love of his own that brings the fulfilment that filmmaking once promised him.

Le Testament Francais

Author : Andreï Makine
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1848947828
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (489 download)

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Download or read book Le Testament Francais written by Andreï Makine and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2009-12-07 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Locked behind the Iron Curtain, a young boy grows up bewitched by his French grandmother’s memories of Paris before the Great War. On her balcony overlooking the Siberian steppes, Charlotte Lemonnier fires her grandson’s imagination with tales of the great flood in 1910, of Proust playing tennis in Neuilly and the President dying in the arms of his mistress, of avenues lined with chestnut trees and elegant cafes. Charlotte’s vision of a paradise lost, though, is overlaid by her subsequent experience. As her grandson grows older, he learns how this remarkable woman survived the Russian revolution’s aftermath, Stalin’s purges and the horrors of the Second World War, gaining from her a portrait of the country drawn with an outsider’s eye. Yet for all the monstrosities of his native land, he realises he is proud to be Russian. Torn between two cultures, as an adolescent he turns his back on all things French. Then in his twenties he abandons the Soviet Union and eventually reaches Paris – where a startling revelation awaits him. This luminous, haunting novel traces a sentimental and intellectual journey that embraces the dramatic history of this century.

The Archipelago of Another Life

Author : Andreï Makine
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0857057928
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book The Archipelago of Another Life written by Andreï Makine and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2019-07-11 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 for the apparatchiks and ambitious careerists who thrive within the Red Army's ranks. Assigned to a search party composed of regulars and reservists, charged with the recapture of an escaped prisoner from a nearby gulag, Gartsev finds himself one of an unlikely quintet of cynics, sadists and heroes, embarked on a challenging manhunt through the Siberian taiga. But the fugitive, capable, cunning and evidently at home in the depths of these vast forests, proves no easy prey. As the pursuit goes on, and the pursuers are struck by a shattering discovery, Gartsev confronts both the worst within himself and the tantalising prospect of another, totally different life. Translated from the French by Geoffrey Strachan

Human Love

Author : Andreï Makine
Publisher : Skyhorse
ISBN 13 : 1628722142
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (287 download)

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Download or read book Human Love written by Andreï Makine and published by Skyhorse. This book was released on 2011-10-31 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love for another person. Love for humanity as a whole. Are the two compatible or mutually exclusive? In his most ambitious novel since Dreams of My Russian Summers, Andreï Makine takes us into the heart of Africa. His hero is Elias Almeida, a black revolutionary whose father was killed when Elias was still a child, and whose mother, to feed him, was forced to prostitute herself. Saved from death by a Catholic priest, Elias becomes a brilliant pupil destined for greatness. However, the memory of his parents turns him into an important cog in the worldwide revolutionary movement, sending him to Cuba and the Soviet Union to be trained for espionage and sabotage. He begins in his native Angola, still struggling to liberate itself from the colonial yoke, and moves to other political hot spots. But what happens when a black revolutionary dedicated to bettering the world falls in love with a white woman who wants only to live a peaceful, simple life?

The Life of an Unknown Man

Author : Andreï Makine
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1848946139
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (489 download)

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Download or read book The Life of an Unknown Man written by Andreï Makine and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2010-10-14 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'It is impossible to exaggerate the power of this short, unbearably poignant novel.' Mail on Sunday 'A bold and elegant novel' Helen Dunmore, Guardian 'A haunting story, beautifully told' Viv Groskop, Observer An extraordinary story of love and endurance during the Siege of Leningrad lies at the heart of a magnificent novel about Russia past and present, and the human condition. One night in St Petersburg, two men meet, both adrift in the brash new Russia: Shutov, a writer visiting after years of exile in Paris, and Volsky, an elderly survivor of the Siege of Leningrad and Stalin's purges. His life story - one of extreme suffering, courage and an extraordinary love - he considers unremarkable. To Shutov it is a revelation, the tale of an unsung hero that puts everything into perspective and suggests where true happiness lies.

The Woman Who Waited

Author : Andreï Makine
Publisher : Skyhorse
ISBN 13 : 1628723637
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (287 download)

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Download or read book The Woman Who Waited written by Andreï Makine and published by Skyhorse. This book was released on 2011-11-07 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 battalion fought his way almost to Berlin, was reported killed in action crossing the Spree River. But Vera refuses to believe he is dead, and each day, all these years later, faithfully awaits his return. Then one day the narrator arrives in the village, a twenty-six-year-old native of Leningrad, who is fascinated both by the still-beautiful woman and her exemplary story, and little by little he falls madly in love with her. But how can he compete with a ghost that will not die? Beautifully, delicately, but always powerfully, Andreï Makine delineates in masterly prose the movements and madness that constitute the dance of pure love. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade, Yucca, and Good Books imprints, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in fiction—novels, novellas, political and medical thrillers, comedy, satire, historical fiction, romance, erotic and love stories, mystery, classic literature, folklore and mythology, literary classics including Shakespeare, Dumas, Wilde, Cather, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

Music of a Life

Author : Andreï Makine
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 162872210X
Total Pages : 75 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (287 download)

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Download or read book Music of a Life written by Andreï Makine and published by Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2011-10-28 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 and proscribed, they have nonetheless, on the eve of Hitler’s war, not yet been arrested. And young Alexeï himself, a budding classical pianist, has been allowed to continue his musical studies. His first solo concert is scheduled for May 24, 1941. Two days before the concert, on his way home from his final rehearsal, he sees his parents being arrested, taken from their Moscow apartment. Knowing his own arrest will not be far behind, Alexeï flees to the country house of his fiancée, where again betrayal awaits him. He flees, one step ahead of the dreaded secret police until, taking on the identity of a dead soldier, he enlists in the Soviet army. Thus begins his seemingly endless journey, through war and peace, until he lands, two decades later, in a snowbound train station in the Urals, where he relates his harrowing saga to the novel’s narrator. An international bestseller, Music of a Life is, in the words of Le Monde, “extremely powerful . . . a gem.”

Dreams of My Russian Summers

Author : Andreï Makine
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1628721162
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (287 download)

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Download or read book Dreams of My Russian Summers written by Andreï Makine and published by Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2011-05-15 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every summer, young Andrei visits his grandmother, Charlotte Lemmonier, whom he loves dearly. In a dusty village overlooking the vast Russian steppes, she captivates her grandson and the other children of the village with wondrous tales—watching Proust play tennis in Neuilly, Tsar Nicholas II’s visit to Paris, French president Felix Faure dying in the arms of his mistress. But from his mysterious grandmother, Andrei also learns of a Russia he has never known: a country of famine and misery, brutal injustice, and the hopeless chaos of war. Enthralled, he weaves her stories into his own secret universe of memory and dream. She creates for him a vivid portrait of the France of her childhood, a distant Atlantis far more elegant, carefree, and stimulating than Russia in the 1970s and ‘80s. Her warm, artful memories of her homeland and of books captivate Andrei. Absorbed in this vision, he becomes an outsider in his own country, and eventually a restless traveler around Europe. Dreams of My Russian Summers is an epic full of passion and tenderness, pain and heartbreak, mesmerizing in every way.

Brief Loves That Live Forever

Author : Andreï Makine
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1780870507
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Brief Loves That Live Forever written by Andreï Makine and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2013-03-28 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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; a furtive, desperate affair in a Black Sea resort; the bunch of snowdrops a crippled childhood friend gave him to give to his lover. As the dreary Brezhnev era gives way to Perestroika and the fall of Communism, the orphan uncovers the truth behind the life of Dmitri Ress, whose tragic fate embodies the unbreakable bond between love and freedom.

A Life's Music

Author : Andreï Makine
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1444716743
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (447 download)

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Download or read book A Life's Music written by Andreï Makine and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2003-06-09 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a snowbound railway station deep in the Soviet Union, a stranded passenger comes across an old man playing the piano in the dark, silent tears rolling down his cheeks. Once on the train to Moscow he begins to tell his story: a tale of loss, love and survival that movingly illustrates the strength of human resilience.