Requiem for a Lost Empire - 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 Requiem for a Lost Empire write by Andreï Makine. This book was released on 2011-11-07. Requiem for a Lost Empire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this remarkable novel, which spans eighty years of the twentieth century, Andreï Makine describes, beautifully but unsparingly, the almost uninterrupted succession of violence, misery, and horror that has been visited on the Russian people since the October Revolution of 1917. For those quick to forget, or too young to remember, he paints a graphic portrait of those years in a three-generational novel that is as moving as it is revealing. A young Russian army doctor is sent to distant shores to bind the wounds of those in Africa, the Near East, and South America that are pawns in the global political chess game during the Cold War. Recruited by an intelligence agent, he experiences the bloody reality of revolution on the ground. The book casts its eye back toward his grandfather Nikolai, a Red cavalry soldier fighting the Whites in 1920, and his father, whose story of World War II is invoked with a passion and force that bear comparison to the best writing on the subject. From the battlefields of the 1920s to the harsh African heat and dust of the desert in the 1980s, from the orphanage where the narrator spent his youth to the art galleries and chic salons of the glittering new West, Requiem for a Lost Empire has all the sweep and depth, all the beauty and insight of the great Russian novels. It is, as the eminent French critic Edmonde Charles-Roux noted, "an astonishing novel, one that will surely stand the test of time."
Requiem for a Lost City
Requiem for a Lost City - 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 Requiem for a Lost City write by Sarah Conley Clayton. This book was released on 1999. Requiem for a Lost City available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Requiem for a Lost City shows us the reality of Civil War Atlanta from the eve of secession to the memorials for the fallen, through the memories of a participant. Sallie Clayton would have been the same age as the fictional Scarlett O'Hara during the Civil War. Sallie Clayton's memoirs, however, are not a work of fiction but bittersweet reminiscences of growing up in a doomed city in the midst of losing a war. Although her memoirs provide invaluable detail on Civil War Atlanta, they also tell of her personal experiences on a plantation in Montgomery, Alabama, and in postwar Augusta and Athens. Sallie Clayton belonged to one of Georgia's wealthiest and most prominent families. Her memoirs are colored by the losses suffered by her family. Robert Davis's introduction to this work illustrates the background of the Claytons, Sallie's writings, and Civil War Atlanta, providing a balanced account of life at "the crossroads of the Confederacy." The introduction also provides a corrective to the popular, Gone With the Wind view of Civil War Atlanta.
Requiem for the Sun
Requiem for the Sun - 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 Requiem for the Sun write by Elizabeth Haydon. This book was released on 2003-05-18. Requiem for the Sun available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Fantasy-roman.
World War II in Andreï Makine’s Historiographic Metafiction
World War II in Andreï Makine’s Historiographic Metafiction - 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 World War II in Andreï Makine’s Historiographic Metafiction write by Helena Duffy. This book was released on 2018-04-17. World War II in Andreï Makine’s Historiographic Metafiction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Can it be ever possible to write about war in a work of fiction? asks a protagonist of one of Makine’s strongly metafictional and intensely historical novels. Helena Duffy’s World War II in Andreï Makine’s Historiographic Metafiction redirects this question at the Franco-Russian author’s fiction itself by investigating its portrayal of Soviet involvement in the struggle against Hitler. To write back into the history of the Great Fatherland War its unmourned victims — invalids, Jews, POWs, women or starving Leningraders — is the self-acknowledged ambition of a novelist committed to the postmodern empowerment of those hitherto silenced by dominant historiographies. Whether Makine succeeds at giving voice to those whose suffering jarred with the triumphalist narrative of the war concocted by Soviet authorities is the central concern of Duffy’s book.
City of Shattered Light
City of Shattered Light - 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 City of Shattered Light write by Claire Winn. This book was released on 2021-10-19. City of Shattered Light available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this YA sci-fi, an heiress flees her controlling father to prevent her test-subject sister’s mind from being reprogrammed—but must ally with a smuggler to outwit a monstrous AI, gravity-shifting gladiatorial pits, and bloodthirsty criminal matriarchs to save her sister and their city.
