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A Woman Loved by Andrei Makine
$45.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Filming the life of Catherine the Great in the last dying days of the Soviet empire means keeping an eye on the censors, but there are opportunities nonetheless for hints of dissidence. When Oleg Erdman is dropped from the film he initially scripted - his name summarily excised from the credits - he is ...Show more
Brief Loves That Live Forever by Andrei Makine
$20.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
In Soviet Russia the desire for freedom is also a desire for the freedom to love. Lovers live as outlaws, traitors to the collective spirit, and love is more intense when it feels like an act of resistance. Now entering middle age, an orphan recalls the fleeting moments that have never left him - a scor ...Show more
Brief Loves That Live Forever by Andrei Makine
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
In Soviet Russia the desire for freedom is also a desire for the freedom to love. Lovers live as outlaws, traitors to the collective spirit, and love is more intense when it feels like an act of resistance. Now entering middle age, an orphan recalls the fleeting moments that have never left him - a scor ...Show more
Le Testament Francais by Andrei Makine
$25.00 AUD
Category: 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
My Armenian Friend by Andrei Makine
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
My Armenian Friend is a moving and nostalgic story about how one friendship can shift our perspective and irrevocably change our lives. Set in Siberia in the 1970s during the decline of the Soviet Empire, the adult narrator looks back on a childhood friendship formed with an Armenian boy called Vardan. ...Show more
The Life of an Unknown Man by Andrei Makine
$20.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
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
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