Requiem for a Lost Empire

Name: Requiem for a Lost Empire
Author: Andreï Makine

by Andreï Makine

Novel of Soviet empire's collapse told through interconnected destinies

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Andreï Makine

Russian-French author whose novel Dreams of My Russian Summers won the Prix Goncourt and Prix Medicis. His lyrical fiction evokes Russia through the prism of French culture with extraordinary evocative power.

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