The Archipelago of Another Life
$28.89
- Paperback
240 pages
- Release Date
13 October 2020
Summary
“A Siberian Heart of Darkness” Julian Barnes
On the far eastern borders of the Soviet Union, in the sunset of Stalin’s reign, soldiers are training for a war that could end all wars, for in the atomic age man has sown the seeds of his own destruction.
Among them is Pavel Gartsev, a reservist. Orphaned, scarred by the last great war and unlucky in love, he is an instant victim for the apparatchiks and ambitious careerists who thrive within the Red Army…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780857057945 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0857057944 |
| Author: | Geoffrey Strachan, Andreï Makine |
| Publisher: | Quercus Publishing |
| Imprint: | MacLehose Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 13 October 2020 |
| Weight: | 171g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 128mm x 20mm |
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A powerful story of metaphysical adventure.
A powerful story of metaphysical adventure. - L’Express
A thrilling manhunt through the taiga. - LiberationAs good as Stendhal or Tolstoy … I would rather read him than anyone else now writing - Literary Review.One of the significant novelists of our age. - Observer.Makine packs great steppes-full of history into compact, bejewelled boxes of prose. - Independent.Makine’s wonderful economy of image and phrase convey far more than one could think possible about the Russian soul. - Daily Telegraph.Masterful … Makine has been justly compared with Tolstoy, but here I think the better reference is Joseph Conrad. - Spectator.Pleasingly clever stuff … has an ambition of romantic grandeur that feels genuinely, soulfully Russian. - Sunday Times.About The Author
Geoffrey Strachan
Andrei Makine was born in Siberia, but writes his novels in French. Le Testament Français was the winner of the Prix Goncourt and the Prix Medici, and the first novel to win both of these prestigious awards.
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