The Earth and Sky of Jacques Dorme Contributor(s): Makine, Andreď (Author), Strachan, Geoffrey (Translator) |
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ISBN: 161145803X ISBN-13: 9781611458039 Publisher: Arcade Publishing OUR PRICE: $13.46 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2013 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Historical - General - Fiction | Cultural Heritage |
Dewey: FIC |
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.5" W x 8.1" (0.60 lbs) 216 pages |
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Publisher Description: With this novel, Andre Makine, whose work has been compared to that of Balzac, Chekhov, Pasternak, and Proust, brings to a stunning conclusion his epic trilogy that began with Dreams of My Russian Summers and continued with Requiem for a Lost Empire. The novel opens in 1942, in a burning, gutted Stalingrad, where the German and Russian armies are locked in a struggle to the death. Amid these ruins, a French pilot and a nurse, also French, are engaged in a passionate affair that each knows will be hopelessly brief. The pilot, Jacques Dorme, was shot down two years earlier. Imprisoned and sent east to a German POW camp, Dorme made a daring escape and crossed Germany stealthily by night until he arrived in an already devastated Russia, where, having proved his mettle as a pilot, he joined a Russian squadron stationed near Stalingrad. But during the brief time they have together there, the love between Dorme and Alexandra builds and blossoms into a relationship they both know comes but once in a lifetime. Several decades later, the narrator--a Russian exiled in France, a war orphan haunted by his dark childhood and obsessively searching for his roots--travels back to his native land, where in the icy and treacherous wastelands of Siberia he attempts to discover how his life and that of Jacques Dorme are inextricably intertwined. |