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Human Love by Andrei Makine
$28.00 NZD
Category: World 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
Le Testament Francais by Andrei Makine
$30.00 NZD
Category: World 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
The Earth and Sky of Jacques Dorme by Andrei Makine
$28.00 NZD
Category: World 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
$28.00 NZD
Category: No Category
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 Life of an Unknown Man by Andrei Makine
$40.00 NZD
Category: World 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
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