The Crime of Olga Arbyelina [trans. Strachan]

✍ Andreï Makine 📂 Fiction 📅 2011;1999 🏛 Arcade Publishing 🌐 en-US ⚖ 166 KB 👁 1 views

The summer of '47. In the sleepy town of Villiers-la-Foret, 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 wo

The Crime Of Olga Arbyelina

✍ Makine, Andrei 📂 Fiction 📅 2011 🌐 English ⚖ 178 KB

The Crime of Olga Arbyelina

✍ Makine, Andrei 📂 Fiction 🌐 English ⚖ 220 KB

Olga Arbyelina is a princess who fled Russia during the revolution; now she lives in a town near Paris tending to her hemophiliac son, keeping ghosts at bay-an existence hollowed out by history. The town gossips obsess over her, making her into the prime character in their "game of a thousand voices

The Crime of Olga Arbyelina

✍ Makine, Andreï 📂 Fiction 📅 2011 🏛 Sky Pony Press 🌐 en-US ⚖ 203 KB

The summer of '47. In the sleepy town of Villiers-la-Foret, 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 wo

The Earth and Sky of Jacques Dorme [tran

The Earth and Sky of Jacques Dorme [trans. Strachan]

✍ Makine, Andrei 📂 Fiction 🌐 English ⚖ 171 KB

The predominance of axial conformers for

The predominance of axial conformers for trans-4-substituted cyclohexene oxides

✍ Vyacheslav V. Samoshin; Irina V. Yartseva; Vladimir A. Svyatkin; Nikolai S. Zefi 📂 Article 📅 1996 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 332 KB

A 'H N M R conformational study of cis-and trans-4-substituted cyclohexene oxides revealed an increased predominance, as compared with the parent 4-substituted cyclohexenes, of the equatorial conformer for cisisomers and a preference of the axial conformer for trans-isomers. These conformational shi