Title:
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THE EARTH AND SKY OF JACQUES DORME
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By: |
Andrei Makine, Geoffrey Strachan (Trans) |
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ISBN 10: |
034083126X |
ISBN 13: |
9780340831267 |
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Publisher: |
HODDER & STOUGHTON GENERAL DIVISION |
Pub. date: |
2 January, 2006 |
Pages: |
192 |
Translated from: |
French |
Description: |
An astounding novel that penetrates the 20th-century experience, from one of Europe's most feted authors |
Synopsis: |
In present-day France a Russian writer recalls his harsh childhood at a Stalingrad orphanage in the 1960s and the old Frenchwoman, a family friend, whose tales fed his dreams of a better world. One story in particular has stayed with him: that of her brief, passionate affair, during World War II, with the French fighter pilot Jacques Dorme, who subsequently died in a plane crash in the Siberian mountains. So the narrator decides to retrace Jacques Dorme's steps, beginning a journey which leads him not only to revisit the land of his birth but also to see his adopted homeland in an unflattering new light. A profound and moving novel about the dangers of ideology and of war, delivered with humour, sensuousness and great lyricism. |
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UK |
Imprint: |
Sceptre |
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