Lieutenant Schreiber's Country - The Story of a Forgotten Hero

Acclaimed Novelist Andrei Makine Celebrates True Patriotism in This Time of False Heroes

About the author

Andrei Makine is an internationally best-selling author. He is the winner of the Goncourt Prize and the Medicis Prize, the two highest literary awards in France, for his novel Dreams of My Russian Summer, which was also a New York Times Notable Book and a Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year. Makine was born in Siberia in 1957 and raised in the Soviet Union. He was granted political asylum by France in 1987 and now lives in Paris. Arcade Publishing has published ten of Makine’s acclaimed novels in English.

Summary

Acclaimed Novelist Andrei Makine Celebrates True Patriotism in This Time of False Heroes

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"Through Andreï Makine's words, the tale of Schreiber's life is transformed into the most precious of success stories."—Le Figaro
"Beautiful writing with moving pages about what Makine calls 'a national injustice.'"—La Presse

Product details

• Authors: Andreei Makine, Andrei Makine, Andreï Makine
• Assisted by: Grace McQuillan (Translation)
• Publisher: Arcade Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2018
• EAN: 9781628728040
• ISBN: 978-1-62872-804-0
• No. of pages: 192
• Dimensions: 145 mm x 213 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 318 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Non-fiction book > History > Biographies, autobiographies