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The Life of an Unknown Man

✍ Scribed by Makine, Andrei

Book ID
107570094
Publisher
Macmillan
Year
2009
Tongue
English
Weight
189 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9781555976149

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

*A deeply moving meditation on memory, history, love, and art by the author of Dreams of My Russian Summers _

In_ The Life of an Unknown Man*, AndreΓ― Makine explores what truly matters in life through the prism of Russia's past and present.

Shutov, a disenchanted writer, revisits St. Petersburg after twenty years of exile in Paris, hoping to recapture his youth. Instead, he meets Volsky, an old man who tells him his extraordinary story: of surviving the siege of Leningrad, the march on Berlin, and Stalin's purges, and of a transcendent love affair. Volsky's life is an inspiration to Shutov -- because for all that he suffered, he knew great happiness. This depth of feeling stands in sharp contrast to the empty lives Shutov encounters in the new Russia, and to his own life, that of just another unknown man . . .

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