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Makine, Andrei; Strachan, Geoffrey (Translated by)
Dreams of My Russian Summers
New York Scribner Paperback Fiction 1998 0684852683 / 9780684852683 Trade Paperback Very Good
ix, 241 pp.; 21 cm. First published, 1995, under title: Testament francais. Translated from the French. Tight, clean copy. Moderate edgewear to wraps. "The most acclaimed novel to come out of Europe in years--hailed by critics as 'a literary miracle' and awarded the 1995 Medicis Prize for Best Foreign Fiction and the prestigious Goncourt Prize, never before bestowed on a non-Frenchman. Acclaimed as one of the literary phenomena of the 1990's, Andrei Makine's Dreams of My Russian Summershas been compared by European critics not only to Pasternak's epic but also to the work of Chekov. Winner of boththe Prix Goncourt and the Prix Medicis, an unprecendented feat, the novel traces a sentimental journey that embraces many of the dramatic events in Russia during this century. Like Vladimir Nabakov before him, Andrei Makine writes a scintillating prose that has had the critics reaching for superlatives: 'A masterpiece' (Elle); 'dazzling' (Le Monde); 'a novel of great beauty' (Le Figaro Litteraire). Dreams of My Russian Summers tells the poignant story of a boy growing up amid the harsh realities of Soviet life in the 1960s and '70s, and of his extraordinary love for an elegant Frenchwoman, Charlotte Lemonnier, who is his grandmother. Every summer he visits his grandmother in a dusty village overlooking the vast steppes. Here, during the warm evenings, they sit on Charlotte's narrow, flower-covered balcony and listen to tales from another time, another place: Paris at the turn of the century. She who used to see Proust playing tennis in Neuilly captivates the childen with stories of Tsar Nicholas's visit to Paris in 1896, of the great Paris flood of 1910, of the death of French president Félix Faure in the arms of his mistress. But from Charlotte the boy also learns of a Russia he has never known, of famine and misery, of brutal injustice, of the hopeless chaos of war. He follows her as she travels by foot from Moscow half the way to Siberia; suffers with her as she tells of her husband--his grandfather--a victim of Stalin's purges; shudders as she describes her own capture by bandits, who brutalized her and left her for dead. Could all this pain and suffering really have happened to his gentle, beloved Charlotte? Mesmerized, the boy weaves Charlotte's stories into his own secret universe of memory and dream. Yet, despite all the deprivations and injustices of the Soviet world, he like many Russians still feels a strong affinity with and 'an indestructible love' for his homeland. Dreams of My Russian Summers is a masterful novel, full of tenderness and passion but also of pain and heartbreak. It marks, as Carol Angier wrote in the London Independent,"the magical debut by a Russian Proust.' / Andreï Makine was born in Russia in 1958 and emigrated to France in 1987. In 1995 his novel Dreams of My Russian Summers won the Goncourt Prize and the Médicis Prize, France's two most prestigious literary awards. He divides his time between Paris and a village in southwestern France." - Publisher.
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Makine, Andrei; Strachan, Geoffrey (Translated by)
Dreams of My Russian Summers
New York Arcade Publishing 1997 1559703830 / 9781559703833 Hard Cover Fine Very Good
ix, 241 pp.; 25 cm. First published under title: Testament francais. Translated from the French. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket nicked once. "The most acclaimed novel to come out of Europe in years--hailed by critics as 'a literary miracle' and awarded the 1995 Medicis Prize for Best Foreign Fiction and the prestigious Goncourt Prize, never before bestowed on a non-Frenchman. Acclaimed as one of the literary phenomena of the 1990's, Andrei Makine's Dreams of My Russian Summershas been compared by European critics not only to Pasternak's epic but also to the work of Chekov. Winner of boththe Prix Goncourt and the Prix Medicis, an unprecendented feat, the novel traces a sentimental journey that embraces many of the dramatic events in Russia during this century. Like Vladimir Nabakov before him, Andrei Makine writes a scintillating prose that has had the critics reaching for superlatives: 'A masterpiece' (Elle); 'dazzling' (Le Monde); 'a novel of great beauty' (Le Figaro Litteraire). Dreams of My Russian Summers tells the poignant story of a boy growing up amid the harsh realities of Soviet life in the 1960s and '70s, and of his extraordinary love for an elegant Frenchwoman, Charlotte Lemonnier, who is his grandmother. Every summer he visits his grandmother in a dusty village overlooking the vast steppes. Here, during the warm evenings, they sit on Charlotte's narrow, flower-covered balcony and listen to tales from another time, another place: Paris at the turn of the century. She who used to see Proust playing tennis in Neuilly captivates the childen with stories of Tsar Nicholas's visit to Paris in 1896, of the great Paris flood of 1910, of the death of French president Félix Faure in the arms of his mistress. But from Charlotte the boy also learns of a Russia he has never known, of famine and misery, of brutal injustice, of the hopeless chaos of war. He follows her as she travels by foot from Moscow half the way to Siberia; suffers with her as she tells of her husband--his grandfather--a victim of Stalin's purges; shudders as she describes her own capture by bandits, who brutalized her and left her for dead. Could all this pain and suffering really have happened to his gentle, beloved Charlotte? Mesmerized, the boy weaves Charlotte's stories into his own secret universe of memory and dream. Yet, despite all the deprivations and injustices of the Soviet world, he like many Russians still feels a strong affinity with and 'an indestructible love' for his homeland. Dreams of My Russian Summers is a masterful novel, full of tenderness and passion but also of pain and heartbreak. It marks, as Carol Angier wrote in the London Independent,"the magical debut by a Russian Proust.' / Andreï Makine was born in Russia in 1958 and emigrated to France in 1987. In 1995 his novel Dreams of My Russian Summers won the Goncourt Prize and the Médicis Prize, France's two most prestigious literary awards. He divides his time between Paris and a village in southwestern France." - Publisher.
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