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A Life's Music by Andrei Makine
Category: Fiction
In a snowbound railway station deep in the Soviet Union, an old man sits playing the piano. He is Alexei Berg, a budding concert pianist whose career was tragically cut short. When the Moscow train arrives he shares a compartment with a stranger, and begins to tell his haunting story.
A Woman Loved by Andrei Makine
Category: Fiction
Filming the life of Catherine the Great in the last dying days of the Soviet empire means keeping an eye on the censors, but there are opportunities nonetheless for hints of dissidence. When Oleg Erdman is dropped from the film he initially scripted - his name summarily excised from the credits - he is ...Show more
Brief Loves That Live Forever by Andrei Makine
Category: Fiction
In Soviet Russia the desire for freedom is also a desire for the freedom to love. Lovers live as outlaws, traitors to the collective spirit, and love is more intense when it feels like an act of resistance. Now entering middle age, an orphan recalls the fleeting moments that have never left him - a scor ...Show more
Brief Loves That Live Forever by Andrei Makine
Category: Fiction
In Soviet Russia the desire for freedom is also a desire for the freedom to love. Lovers live as outlaws, traitors to the collective spirit, and love is more intense when it feels like an act of resistance. Now entering middle age, an orphan recalls the fleeting moments that have never left him - a scor ...Show more
Doctor Who: The Essential Guide by Makine Andrei
Category: Film & Tv | Series: Doctor Who
"A new edition of the ultimate and most essential guide to Doctor Who, now updated to include all twelve incarnations of the Doctor and covering all his newest adventures from Series 8 and 9. With fascinating facts from all of space and time, as well as information on the Doctor's helpful companions and ...Show more
Human Love by Andrei Makine
Category: Fiction
Elias Almeida, professional revolutionary, has seen mankind at its pitiless worst. Witness as a child to the death of both his parents in uprisings in Angola and the Congo, and later as a Soviet agent at the heart of African politics, he has observed murder, rape, pillage and starvation in the name of i ...Show more
Human Love by Andrei Makine
Category: Fiction
'A haunting, often very tender story written in a kind of meditative fury!one of the best novels about Africa in a long time' Christopher Hope, Guardian As a child, Elias Almeida loses both his parents during the Angolan uprising against colonial rule. As an adult and professional revolutionary, he bear ...Show more
LIEUTENANT SCHREIBER'S COUNTRY THE STORY OF A FORGOTTEN HERO by MAKINE ANDREI
Category: Biography
Acclaimed Novelist Andrei Makine Celebrates True Patriotism in This Time of False HeroesJean-Claude Servan-Schreiber enlisted in the French army at the outset of World War II and quickly rose to the rank of lieutenant. Despite his patriotism and courage in defending his country, in which he narrowly esc ...Show more
Le Testament Francais by Andrei Makine
Category: Fiction
Locked behind the Iron Curtain, a young boy grows up bewitched by his French grandmother's memories of Paris before the Great War. Yet despite what he also learns of her suffering in the Soviet Union under Stalin and during the Second World War, as an adolescent he finds himself proud to be a Russian. T ...Show more