Francuskiot testament
Author | : Andreï Makine |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 253 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Domestic fiction |
ISBN | : 9789989420382 |
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Author | : Andreï Makine |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 253 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Domestic fiction |
ISBN | : 9789989420382 |
Author | : Andreï Makine |
Publisher | : Hachette UK |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 2009-12-07 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1848947828 |
Locked behind the Iron Curtain, a young boy grows up bewitched by his French grandmother’s memories of Paris before the Great War. On her balcony overlooking the Siberian steppes, Charlotte Lemonnier fires her grandson’s imagination with tales of the great flood in 1910, of Proust playing tennis in Neuilly and the President dying in the arms of his mistress, of avenues lined with chestnut trees and elegant cafes. Charlotte’s vision of a paradise lost, though, is overlaid by her subsequent experience. As her grandson grows older, he learns how this remarkable woman survived the Russian revolution’s aftermath, Stalin’s purges and the horrors of the Second World War, gaining from her a portrait of the country drawn with an outsider’s eye. Yet for all the monstrosities of his native land, he realises he is proud to be Russian. Torn between two cultures, as an adolescent he turns his back on all things French. Then in his twenties he abandons the Soviet Union and eventually reaches Paris – where a startling revelation awaits him. This luminous, haunting novel traces a sentimental and intellectual journey that embraces the dramatic history of this century.
Author | : Andreï Makine |
Publisher | : Sceptre |
Total Pages | : 275 |
Release | : 2006-12-28 |
Genre | : Grandchildren |
ISBN | : 9780340936412 |
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. Torn between two cultures, he eventually leaves after the fall of the Berlin Wall for Paris.
Author | : Eliza Szandorowska |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 92 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Books of hours |
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Author | : François Villon |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 76 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9789985835180 |
Author | : François Villon |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1974 |
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Author | : Andreï Makine |
Publisher | : Skyhorse Publishing, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 271 |
Release | : 2011-05-15 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1628721162 |
Every summer, young Andrei visits his grandmother, Charlotte Lemmonier, whom he loves dearly. In a dusty village overlooking the vast Russian steppes, she captivates her grandson and the other children of the village with wondrous tales—watching Proust play tennis in Neuilly, Tsar Nicholas II’s visit to Paris, French president Felix Faure dying in the arms of his mistress. But from his mysterious grandmother, Andrei also learns of a Russia he has never known: a country of famine and misery, brutal injustice, and the hopeless chaos of war. Enthralled, he weaves her stories into his own secret universe of memory and dream. She creates for him a vivid portrait of the France of her childhood, a distant Atlantis far more elegant, carefree, and stimulating than Russia in the 1970s and ‘80s. Her warm, artful memories of her homeland and of books captivate Andrei. Absorbed in this vision, he becomes an outsider in his own country, and eventually a restless traveler around Europe. Dreams of My Russian Summers is an epic full of passion and tenderness, pain and heartbreak, mesmerizing in every way.
Author | : American Tract Society |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 1892 |
Genre | : Tract societies |
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Total Pages | : 1094 |
Release | : 1892 |
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Total Pages | : 1314 |
Release | : 1972 |
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