Télécharger le livre :  The Archipelago of Another Life
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On the far eastern borders of the Soviet Union, in the sunset of Stalin's reign, soldiers are training for a war that could end all wars, for in the atomic age man has sown the seeds of his own destruction. Among them is Pavel Gartsev, a reservist. Orphaned, scarred by...

Editeur : Maclehose Press
Parution : 2019-07-11

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Télécharger le livre :  A Woman Loved
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Catherine the Great's life seems to have been made for the cinema. Countless love affairs and wild sexual escapades, betrayal, revenge, murder - there is no shortage of historical drama. But Oleg Erdmann, a young Russian filmmaker, seeks to discover and portray the real...

Editeur : Maclehose Press
Parution : 2015-08-06

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Télécharger le livre :  Brief Loves That Live Forever
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In Soviet Russia the desire for freedom is also a desire for the freedom to love. Lovers live as outlaws, traitors to the collective spirit, and love is more intense when it feels like an act of resistance. Now entering middle age, an orphan recalls the fleeting moments...

Editeur : Maclehose Press
Parution : 2013-03-28

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Télécharger le livre :  The Life of an Unknown Man
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'It is impossible to exaggerate the power of this short, unbearably poignant novel.' Mail on Sunday'A bold and elegant novel' Helen Dunmore, Guardian'A haunting story, beautifully told' Viv Groskop, ObserverAn extraordinary story of love and endurance during the Siege...

Editeur : Sceptre
Parution : 2010-10-14

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Télécharger le livre :  Le Testament Francais
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Locked behind the Iron Curtain, a young boy grows up bewitched by his French grandmother’s memories of Paris before the Great War. On her balcony overlooking the Siberian steppes, Charlotte Lemonnier fires her grandson’s imagination with tales of the great flood in...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2009-12-07

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Télécharger le livre :  Human Love
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As a child, Elias Almeida loses both his parents during the Angolan uprising against colonial rule.As an adult and professional revolutionary, he bears witness to mankind at its pitiless worst. Yet he continues to believe in a better world and in the redeeming power of...

Editeur : Sceptre
Parution : 2009-03-19

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Télécharger le livre :  The Woman Who Waited
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'Achingly beautiful' Guardian 'By turns touching and profoundly sad' SpectatorWhen a young, rebellious writer from Leningrad arrives in a remote Russian village to study local customs, one woman stands out: Vera, who has been waiting thirty years for her lover to return...

Editeur : Sceptre
Parution : 2007-02-22

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Télécharger le livre :  A Life's Music
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'A mini-masterpiece'William Boyd, Guardian'Remarkable'Daily Telegraph'Unforgettable'Mail on Sunday'Prodigious'Spectator'Perfect'Daily MailIn a snowbound railway station deep in the Soviet Union, a stranded passenger comes across an old man playing the piano in the dark,...

Editeur : Sceptre
Parution : 2003-06-09

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