A Life's Music

Zusatztext Avoiding a heavy-handed treatment of Russian history! in little more than 100 pages Makine succeeds not only in condensing the life and loves of one man! but in capturing the fear that pervaded everyday life in Stalin's Soviet Union. It is the perfect riposte to anyone who believes that great Russian literature must be unwieldy and crammed with a cast of thousands Informationen zum Autor Andreï Makine was born in Krasnoyarsk in Siberia in 1957, but sought asylum in France in 1987. While initially sleeping rough in Paris he was writing his first novel, A HERO'S DAUGHTER, which was eventually published in 1990 after Makine pretended it had been translated from the Russian, since no publisher believed he could have written it in French. With his third novel, ONCE UPON A RIVER LOVE, he was finally published as a 'French' writer, and with his fourth, LE TESTAMENT FRANCAIS, he became the first author to win both of France's top literary prizes, the Prix Goncourt and Prix Médicis. Since then Andreï Makine has written THE CRIME OF OLGA ARBYELINA, REQUIEM FOR THE EAST, A LIFE'S MUSIC, which won the Grand Prix RTL-Lire, THE EARTH AND SKY OF JACQUES DORME, THE WOMAN WHO WAITED, HUMAN LOVE and THE LIFE OF AN UNKNOWN MAN. Klappentext A magnificent story of courage and survival in the face of great adversityA magnificent story of courage and survival in the face of great adversity Zusammenfassung A magnificent story of courage and survival in the face of great adversity

Product details

• Authors: Andrei Makine, Andreï Makine
• Assisted by: Geoffrey Strachan (Translation), Strachan Geoffrey (Translation)
• Publisher: Sceptre
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 09.06.2003
• EAN: 9780340820094
• ISBN: 978-0-340-82009-4
• No. of pages: 112
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 198 mm x 6 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Sagas, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, Modern & contemporary fiction, Saga fiction (family / generational sagas), Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary