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The Earth and Sky of Jacques Dorme
Andreï Makine
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Description for The Earth and Sky of Jacques Dorme
Paperback. An astounding novel that penetrates the 20th-century experience, from one of Europe's most feted authors Translator(s): Strachan, Geoffrey. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 13. Weight in Grams: 136.
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 story in particular has stayed with him: that of her brief, passionate affair, during World War II, with the French fighter pilot Jacques Dorme, who subsequently died in a plane crash in the Siberian mountains. So the narrator decides to retrace Jacques Dorme's steps, beginning a journey which leads him not only to revisit the land of his birth but also to see his adopted homeland ... Read more
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 story in particular has stayed with him: that of her brief, passionate affair, during World War II, with the French fighter pilot Jacques Dorme, who subsequently died in a plane crash in the Siberian mountains. So the narrator decides to retrace Jacques Dorme's steps, beginning a journey which leads him not only to revisit the land of his birth but also to see his adopted homeland ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780340831267
SKU
V9780340831267
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About Andreï Makine
Andreï Makine was born in Siberia but has lived in France since 1987. He is the author of nine novels including LE TESTAMENT FRANCAIS, which won both the Prix Goncourt and Prix Médicis, and has gone on to sell over a million copies in France alone and to be published in translation in twenty-nine countries.
Reviews for The Earth and Sky of Jacques Dorme
The year's finest novel . . . a truly remarkable achievement. Makine will surely one day win the Nobel Prize.
Francis King, Books of the Year, Spectator
Undisputedly a novelist of genius . . . a remarkable work
Spectator
One of the most extraordinary novels I've read for a long time . . . endlessly fascinating ... Read more
Francis King, Books of the Year, Spectator
Undisputedly a novelist of genius . . . a remarkable work
Spectator
One of the most extraordinary novels I've read for a long time . . . endlessly fascinating ... Read more