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The Earth and Sky of Jacques Dorme

✍ Scribed by Makine, Andreï

Book ID
109910027
Publisher
Arcade Publishing
Year
2012
Tongue
English
Weight
114 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9781611458039

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✦ Synopsis

"A symphony, a historical epic rich in romance and tragic irony...An object of wonder." --Boston Globe

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...

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