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Книги Makine A.
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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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En partant pour Saint-Petersbourg, Choutov, ecrivain et ancien dissident, espere fuir l'impasse de sa liaison avec Lea, eprouver de nouveau l'incandescence de ses ideaux de jeunesse et surtout retrouver la femme dont il etait amoureux trente ans auparavant. Son evasion le menera vers une Russie inconnue ou il decouvrira l'exemple d'un amour qui se revelera la veritable destination de son voyage. |
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Du fond de la case ou ils sont retenus prisonniers, deux instructeurs russes assistent au viol d’une femme qui cache une poignee de diamants dans sa bouche. Derriere eux, a demi-mort git un revolutionnaire angolais. Il scande le nom d’un village siberien. Et dans cette foret, a la lisiere du Zaire et de l’Angola, au milieu d’une Afrique exsangue, surgit le souvenir du visage tant aime d’Anna… |
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