Dreams Of My Russian Summers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dreams Of My Russian Summers write by Andrei Makine. This book was released on 1998-08-27. Dreams Of My Russian Summers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This international bestseller has been translated into 26 languages and is the first work to win both of France's top literary honors. "A masterpiece. . . . Makine belongs on the shelf of world literature--between Lermontov and Nabokov, a few volumes down from Proust".--"The Atlanta Journal".
Dreams of My Russian Summers
Dreams of My Russian Summers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dreams of My Russian Summers write by Andreï Makine. This book was released on 2011-05-15. Dreams of My Russian Summers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Every summer, young Andrei visits his grandmother, Charlotte Lemmonier, whom he loves dearly. In a dusty village overlooking the vast Russian steppes, she captivates her grandson and the other children of the village with wondrous tales—watching Proust play tennis in Neuilly, Tsar Nicholas II’s visit to Paris, French president Felix Faure dying in the arms of his mistress. But from his mysterious grandmother, Andrei also learns of a Russia he has never known: a country of famine and misery, brutal injustice, and the hopeless chaos of war. Enthralled, he weaves her stories into his own secret universe of memory and dream. She creates for him a vivid portrait of the France of her childhood, a distant Atlantis far more elegant, carefree, and stimulating than Russia in the 1970s and ‘80s. Her warm, artful memories of her homeland and of books captivate Andrei. Absorbed in this vision, he becomes an outsider in his own country, and eventually a restless traveler around Europe. Dreams of My Russian Summers is an epic full of passion and tenderness, pain and heartbreak, mesmerizing in every way.
DREAMS OF MY RUSSIAN SUMMERS--INT'L EDITION
DREAMS OF MY RUSSIAN SUMMERS--INT'L EDITION - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook DREAMS OF MY RUSSIAN SUMMERS--INT'L EDITION write by Andrei Makine. This book was released on 1998-08-01. DREAMS OF MY RUSSIAN SUMMERS--INT'L EDITION available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Dreams of My Russian Summers tells the poignant story of a boy growing up amid the harsh realities of Soviet life in the 1960s and '70s, and of his extraordinary love for an elegant Frenchwoman, Charlotte Lemonnier, who is his grandmother. Every summer he visits his grandmother in a dusty village overlooking the vast steppes. Here, during the warm evenings, they sit on Charlotte's narrow, flower-covered bacony and listen to tales from another time, another place: Paris at the turn of the century. She who used to see Proust playing tennis in Neuilly captivates the children with stories of Tsar Nicholas's visit to Paris in 1896, of the great Paris flood of 1910, of the death of French president Felix Faure in the arms of his mistress. But from Charlotte the boy also learns of a Russia he has never known, of famine and misery, of brutal injustice, of the hopeless chaos of war. He follows her as she travels by foot from Moscow half the way to Siberia; suffers with her as she tells of her husband - his grandfather - a victim of Stalin's purges; shudders as she describes her own capture by bandits, who brutalize her and left her for dead. Could all this pain and suffering really have happened to his gentle, beloved Charlotte? Mesmerized, the boy weaves Charlotte's stories into his own secret universe of memory and dream. Yet, despite all the deprivations and injustices of the Soviet world, he like many Russians still feels a strong affinity with and "an indestructible love" for his homeland.
Dreams of My Russian Summer
Dreams of My Russian Summer - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dreams of My Russian Summer write by Andreï Makine. This book was released on 2009-07-01. Dreams of My Russian Summer available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Andrei, a 1960s Soviet schoolboy, recalls his summer visits with his grandmother, Charlotte, in a remote Siberian village, her magical tales of another time and world.
The Life of an Unknown Man
The Life of an Unknown Man - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Life of an Unknown Man write by Andreï Makine. This book was released on 2012-06-05. The Life of an Unknown Man available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A deeply moving meditation on memory, history, love, and art by the author of Dreams of My Russian Summers In The Life of an Unknown Man, Andreï Makine explores what truly matters in life through the prism of Russia's past and present. Shutov, a disenchanted writer, revisits St. Petersburg after twenty years of exile in Paris, hoping to recapture his youth. Instead, he meets Volsky, an old man who tells him his extraordinary story: of surviving the siege of Leningrad, the march on Berlin, and Stalin's purges, and of a transcendent love affair. Volsky's life is an inspiration to Shutov -- because for all that he suffered, he knew great happiness. This depth of feeling stands in sharp contrast to the empty lives Shutov encounters in the new Russia, and to his own life, that of just another unknown man . . .
