Geoffrey Strachan (trans.)
A Woman Loved
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Should historical fiction include fiction in which a researcher looks back at the past, in this case the career of Catherine the Great? ...Read Review
Brief Lives that Live Forever
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This Russian author writes in French and has been translated into English (are you still with me?). A middle-aged Russian looks back on ...Read Review
Music of a Life
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In this densely written novella, Russian author Andrei Makine evokes the grim, gray, repressive atmosphere of Soviet Russia from the early 1940s to ...Read Review
Requiem for a Lost Empire
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This novel spans three generations – from 1917, when the narrator’s grandfather fought for the Red Army, through World War II, when his father ...Read Review
Where I Left My Soul
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André Degorce is a man whose life has been both formed and distorted by the history of France in the 20th century. Internment ...Read Review
Dreams of My Russian Summers
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Winner of both the Prix Goncourt and Prix Medici in 1995, Makine’s lyrical novel about homeland, memory, and belonging is beautifully absorbing reading ...Read Review
The Hero’s Daughter
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This understated novel remained in my mind days after I had read its last page. I know many people (myself included) will hesitate ...Read Review
Music of a Life
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In a crowded, dreary, and frigid train station somewhere in Siberia, the narrator whiles away the time musing over the nature of the “...Read Review
