A novel showing the lasting and devastating effects of Stalin's brutal reign of terror.
A Hero's Daughter
β Scribed by Makine, Andrei
- Book ID
- 109150199
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 102 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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β¦ Synopsis
Overview: AndreΓ― Makine was born in Krasnoyarsk, Soviet Union on 10 September 1957 and grew up in city of Penza, a provincial town about 440 miles south-east of Moscow. As a boy, having acquired familiarity with France and its language from his French-born grandmother (it is not certain whether Makine had a French grandmother; in later interviews he claimed to have learnt French from a friend), he wrote poems in both French and his native Russian.
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