Brief Loves That Live Forever
$32.18
- Paperback
176 pages
- Release Date
10 June 2014
Summary
In Soviet Russia the desire for freedom is also a desire for the freedom to love. Lovers live as outlaws, traitors to the collective spirit, and love is more intense when it feels like an act of resistance.
Now entering middle age, an orphan recalls the fleeting moments that have never left him - a scorching day in a blossoming orchard with a woman who loves another; a furtive, desperate affair in a Black Sea resort; the bunch of snowdrops a crippled childhood friend gave him to give …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781780870496 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1780870493 |
| Author: | Andrei Makine, Andreï Makine, Geoffrey Strachan |
| Publisher: | Quercus Publishing |
| Imprint: | MacLehose Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 176 |
| Release Date: | 10 June 2014 |
| Weight: | 128g |
| Dimensions: | 200mm x 135mm x 13mm |
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Critics Review
‘Makine’s prose is both spare and meditative, and leads us deep into the memories of a world that is now gone’ Gillian Slovo, Observer .
‘A poignant, poetically charged picture of a repressive society, leavened only by the freedom and possibilities of love’ Mail on Sunday. * Mail on Sunday *‘Makine’s prose is both spare and meditative, and leads us deep into the memories of a world that is now gone’ Gillian Slovo, Observer. * Observer *‘I would rather read Andreï Makine than any other novelist of our time … This new short, beautiful book is as good as anything he has written’ Allan Massie, Scotsman. * Scotsman *
About The Author
Andrei Makine
Andrei Makine was born in Siberia, but writes his novels in French. Le Testament Français was the winner of the Prix Goncourt and the Prix Médicis, and the first novel to win both of these prestigious awards.
Geoffrey Strachan has translated all Andrei Makine’s novels published in English. He was awarded the Scott-Moncrieff Prize for Makine’s Le Testament Français.
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