Andrei Makine, Author Arcade Publishing $21.95 (192p) ISBN 978-1-55970-529-5
""It was all so simple. Crystal clear... "" begins this chronicle of the ebb in the fortunes of Marxist true believers. However, life in post-WWII Russia, where Makine's slim, impressionistic novel is set, is anything but simple or crystal clear....
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Andrei Makine, Author, Geoffrey Strachan, Translator , trans. from the French by Geoffrey Strachan. Arcade $24.95 (252p) ISBN 978-1-55970-571-4
This luminous, beautifully crafted new novel by much-praised Russian émigré author Makine (Dreams of My Russian Summers, etc.) takes as its subject three generations of a Russian family, caught in the violent political struggles of the...
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Andrei Makine, Author, Geoffrey Strachan, Translator , trans. from the French by Geoffrey Strachan. Arcade $21.95 (120p) ISBN 978-1-55970-637-7
A tinted review in adult Forecasts indicates a book that's of exceptional importance to our readers, but hasn't received a starred or boxed review.MUSIC OF A LIFEAndreï Makine, trans. from the French by Geoffrey Strachan. Arcade, $21.95
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Andrei Makine, Author, Geoffrey Strachan, Translator , trans. from the French by Geoffrey Strachan. Arcade $23.95 (207p) ISBN 978-1-55970-687-2
The Russian-born, Paris-based Makine vaulted into prominence with his fourth novel, Dreams of My Russian Summers, which won France's two most prestigious literary prizes. Since then, along with newer novels (most recently Music of a Life), a...
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Andrei Makine, Author, Geoffrey Strachan, Translator Arcade Publishing $23.95 (320p) ISBN 978-1-55970-383-3
A portrait of private heroism enlivens the familiar triad of memory, literature and exile in this haunting autobiographical novel, which, on its appearance in France, became the first work to win both of the country's highest literary honors, the...
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Andrei Makine, Author, Geoffrey Strachan, Translator Arcade Publishing $24.95 (256p) ISBN 978-1-55970-438-0
Dreams of My Russian Summers, the first novel from Russian migr Makine to be translated into English from his adopted French, astonished readers on both sides of the Atlantic by applying the methods of Proust to exotic contemporary material: the...
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Andrei Makine, Author, Geoffrey Strachan, Translator Arcade Publishing $24.95 (256p) ISBN 978-1-55970-494-6
The intricate thoughts and fears of a Russian migr mother take center stage in this elaborately haunting work from the author of Dreams of My Russian Summers. In 1947, in Villiers-la-For t, France, Sergei Golets, an unlicensed doctor and former...
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Andrei Makine, Author, Geoffrey Strachan, Translator , trans. from the French by Geoffrey Strachan. Arcade $24 (206p) ISBN 978-1-55970-739-8
Makine closes his epic 20th-century Russian trilogy (Dreams of My Russian Summers
; Requiem for a Lost Empire
) with a poignant, tender ode to the power of wartime love. Amid the ruins of Stalingrad in 1942, French fighter pilot Jacques Dorme...
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Andrei Makine, Author, Geoffrey Strachan, Translator , trans. from the French by Geoffrey Strachan. Arcade $24 (182p) ISBN 978-1-55970-774-9
A sensuously styled, elegiac tale set in the mid-1970s, Makine's latest opens a window onto a generation of post-WWII Russian widows through one mysterious woman's vigil. In the village of Mirnoe on the northern White Sea coast, a young male
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Andrei Makine, trans. from the French by Geoffrey Strachan. Graywolf, $16 trade paper (256p) ISBN 978-1-55597-711-5
Makine (Dreams of My Russian Summers) captivates in this tale of a Russian screenwriter’s dogged pursuit to capture the essence of an outsized empress, Catherine the Great. The novel opens in 1980 when, in between shifts at a slaughterhouse, Oleg...
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Andrei Makine, trans. from the French by Geoffrey Strachan. Graywolf, $16 trade paper (144p) ISBN 978-1-55597-712-2
With writing that is as spare and evocative as poetry, Makine’s (A Woman Loved) story is a gemstone of a novel, polished and luminous. The narrator, now in middle age, recounts stories of coming of age as an orphan during the deprivations of the...
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