In this remarkable new novel, which spans eighty years of the twentieth century, Andre Makine describes, beautifully but unsparingly, the almost uninterrupted succession of violence, misery, and horror that has been visited on the Russian people since the October Revolution of 1917. For those quick
Requiem for a Lost Empire [trans. Strachan]
β Scribed by Makine, Andrei
- Book ID
- 106796237
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 252 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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In this remarkable new novel, which spans eighty years of the twentieth century, Andre Makine describes, beautifully but unsparingly, the almost uninterrupted succession of violence, misery, and horror that has been visited on the Russian people since the October Revolution of 1917. For those quick
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 Maki