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Dreams of My Russian Summers
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Andrei Makine, Geoffrey Howard (Read by)
Winner of both the Prix Goncourt and the Prix Médicis in France, this novel concerns a young Russian émigré in France who records his grandmother's memories of her childhood in a Siberian town, and comes to the realization that the past can be transcended only by turning memory into art.
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The Woman Who Waited
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The Crime of Olga Arbyelina
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Makine's second novel tells the story of Olga, a Russian refugee who escapes the Bolsheviks, flees to a small town in France with her hemophiliac little boy, and becomes a librarian. As her son becomes a teenager, Olga's life begins to crumble as she realizes unpleasant truths about the boy and about her relationship with him--things over which ...
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Requiem for a Lost Empire
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In Makine's fifth novel, the memories of an unnamed narrator weave through the 20th century as he recalls episodes in the life of his family--experiences that include those of a battlefield doctor in Afghanistan who was also a KGB agent, a Russian villager who defied the Soviet regime, and a man who swears to avenge the death of his beloved.
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The Earth and Sky of Jacques Dorme
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Jacques, a fighter pilot, and Alexandra, a nurse, meet in Stalingrad in 1942. They fall passionately in love, have an affair, and part. Jacques is killed, but Alexandra is pregnant, and her son is the novel's narrator, telling the story of his father's life--and finding himself compelled to seek out the wreckage of the plane Jacques was flying ...
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Confessions of a Fallen Standard-Bearer
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In this lyrical novel, first published in French in 1992, a young man named Alyosha Yevdokimov reminisces about his childhood in St. Petersburg, where his family and their neighbors, the Zingers, live in an apartment house. While Alyosha, with young Arkady Zinger, is at Soviet summer camp, both their fathers die.
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Le Testament Francais
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Music of a Life
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Alexei Berg comes from an artistic and accomplished family living in Russia during the Stalin era in the late 1930s. His parents--a writer and an opera singer--are harassed and then arrested, and Alexei is forced to flee for his life.
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Das Französische Testament
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A Life's Music
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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. 'A novella to be read in a ...
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Le Testement Francais
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Le Testament Francais: Roman
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The Earth and Sky of Jacques Dorme
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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 ...
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Once Upon the River Love
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Three teenage boys in the Ukraine become enamored of French films, the character of Jean-Paul Belmondo, and the idea of falling in love.
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Au Temps Du Fleuve Nori
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La Fille D'Un Heros De L'Union Sovietique
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Requiem Pour L'Est
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La Musique D'Une Vie
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Requiem Por El Este
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Why he was shot?, an orfan young boy asks Sacha, the woman with white hair that one night when he was a kid took him in her arms into a hidden cabanna in the Caucasus. Sacha's answer in the touching story about this boy grandparents, Nikolai and Anna. . . .
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Confessions Dun Porte Drapeau Dechu
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Le Crime D'Olga Arbelina: Roman
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Human Love
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Andrei Makine, Geoffrey Strachan (Translator)
Both a psychological thriller and a touching love story, this rich novel from the author of "Dreams of My Russian Summers" is set mostly in an Africa bitterly struggling to shed its colonial chains.
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La Musica de Una Vida
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Testamento Frances, El
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A Hero's Daughter
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In World War II Ivan Demidov won the Red Army's highest award for bravery, that of Hero of the Soviet Union. But the decades following the War have brought him a life of hardship, alleviated only by his pride in this achievement and the modest privileges granted to War veterans. His daughter, Olya, on the other hand, born in 1961 and trained as a ...
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