The Earth and Sky of Jacques Dorme - Hardcover

Makine, Andrei

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0340831251 ISBN 13: 9780340831250

Verlag: Sceptre, 2005

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Críticas:

'The year's finest novel . . . a truly remarkable achievement. Makine will surely one day win the Nobel Prize.' - Francis King, Books of the Year, Spectator The skill with which [the novel is] woven together is uncanny, as uncanny as the ease with which he slides from one mood to another ... There is humour here, too, and a succession of short scenes so vividly realised that you seem to be partaking of the experience ... This is a novel to read, and read again, with ever-deepening admiration. - Allan Massie, Scotsman The novel pulls off the difficult feat of being both lyrical and taut. It is also cleverly structured, with an impressively resonant ending. - Sunday Telegraph Makine specialises (like one of his inspirations, Vladamir Nabokov) in the epiphanic moment that redeems the horror of actual time. - Sunday Times Each of his taut, atmospheric works achieves an epic grandeur. Here is an artist blessed with vision, a grasp of history and lyric grace . . . Makine continues to bring the ease of Chekhov, a balance of the past with the present, and his own limpid allure to the contemporary European novel. - Eileen Battersby, Irish Times Poignant . . . an elegiac reminiscence of a boyhood passed under the spell of Alexandra's brief romance with the mysterious pilot . . . [a]meticulously rendered story - James Francken, Daily Telegraph

Reseña del editor:

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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• Verlag: Sceptre
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0340831251
• ISBN 13: 9780340831250
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 192