Dreams of My Russian Summers

Author: Andreï Makine
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Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 1611450543

Dreams of My Russian Summers: A Novel

Andrew Makine's luminous and haunting novel-a New York Times Notable Book and a Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year. Get Dreams of My Russian Summers literature books for free.
/strong>Every summer, young Andrei visits his grandmother, Charlotte Lemmonier, whom he loves dearly. In a dusty village overlooking the vast Russian steppes, she captivates her grandson and the other children of the village with wondrous tales-watching Proust play tennis in Neuilly, Tsar Nicholas II's visit to Paris, French president Felix Faure dying in the arms of his mistress. But from his mysterious grandmother, Andrei also learns of a Russia he has never known: a country of famine and misery, brutal injustice, and the hopeless chaos of war.

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