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Brief Loves That Live Forever by Andrei Makine
$29.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
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 scor ...Show more
Brief Loves That Live Forever by Andrei Makine
$21.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
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 scor ...Show more
Human Love by Andrei Makine
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'A haunting, often very tender story written in a kind of meditative fury!one of the best novels about Africa in a long time' Christopher Hope, Guardian As a child, Elias Almeida loses both his parents during the Angolan uprising against colonial rule. As an adult and professional revolutionary, he bear ...Show more
Human Love by Andrei Makine
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Elias Almeida, professional revolutionary, has seen mankind at its pitiless worst. Witness as a child to the death of both his parents in uprisings in Angola and the Congo, and later as a Soviet agent at the heart of African politics, he has observed murder, rape, pillage and starvation in the name of i ...Show more
Le Testament Francais by Andrei Makine
$22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Locked behind the Iron Curtain, a young boy grows up bewitched by his French grandmother's memories of Paris before the Great War. Yet despite what he also learns of her suffering in the Soviet Union under Stalin and during the Second World War, as an adolescent he finds himself proud to be a Russian. T ...Show more
Le Testament Francais by Andrei Makine
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
On the edge of the Siberian steppes, a young boy grows up listening to his French grandmother's stories of France just before the Great War - a nostalgic portrait of a vanished world, but a bewitching one during the Soviet regime. Gradually the story emerges of his grandmother's subsequent life in Russi ...Show more
Requiem for the East by Makine, Andrei
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
An extraordinary, profoundly moving and thought-provoking novel tracing the rise and fall of communism through its impact on three generations of one family: the narrator's grandfather, who deserted from the Red Army in the chaotic aftermath of the 1917 revolution; his father, who survived the Eastern f ...Show more
The Earth and Sky of Jacques Dorme by Andrei Makine
$22.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
An astounding novel that penetrates the 20th-century experience, from one of Europe's most feted authors. In present-day France a Russian writer recalls his harsh childhood at a Stalingrad orphanage in the 1960s and the old Frenchwoman, a family friend, whose tales fed his dreams of a better world. One ...Show more
The Life of an Unknown Man by Andrei Makine
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Jilted by his girlfriend and disillusioned by modern France, the writer Shutov revisits St Petersburg after twenty years in exile, hoping to reconnect with his roots and the woman he loved in his youth. But she, and the brash new Russia that greets him, are not what he was expecting at all. Then he enco ...Show more
The Life of an Unknown Man by Andrei Makine
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
One night in St Petersburg, two men meet, both adrift in the brash new Russia: Shutov, a writer visiting after years of exile in Paris, and Volsky, an elderly survivor of the Siege of Leningrad and Stalin's purges. His life story - one of extreme suffering, courage and an extraordinary love - he conside ...Show more
The Woman Who Waited by Andrei Makine
$39.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
This is the bestselling new novel from a master of European literature, a grippingly unpredictable, sensual tale of longing and betrayal. When a young dissident writer from Leningrad arrives in a remote Russian village to study local customs, one woman stands out: Vera, who has been waiting thirty years ...Show more