The Earth and Sky of Jacques Dorme A Novel |
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| Author:
| Makine, Andreï |
| Translator:
| Strachan, Geoffrey |
| ISBN: | 978-1-62872-192-8 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 2011 |
| Publisher: | Skyhorse Publishing Company, Incorporated
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| Imprint: | Arcade Publishing |
| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | Contact Supplier contact
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Book Description:
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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...
More DescriptionIn 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.