Andreï Makine - Bücher & Infos

Original: Französisch, 2025
Klappentext (franz.): Dieser große Schicksalsroman schildert ein halbes Jahrhundert der Geschichte der Sowjetunion und Frankreichs anhand des intensiven menschlichen Abenteuers von Lucien Baert, einem jungen französischen Kommunisten, der „Gefangener des scharlachroten Traums“ war. Als er 1939 nach Moskau kam, um das Versprechen eines Paradieses auf Erden zu entdecken, lernte er die Kehrseite der Medaille kennen: die extreme Grausamkeit des Regimes, die…

Zumindest einstweilen auf Englisch erschienen:
My Armenian Friend
In this inspiring story, Andreï Makine looks back on a childhood friendship which changed his life. Set in 1970s Siberia, in the declining years of the Soviet Empire, My Armenian Friend offers a poignant evocation of ordinary lives as well as a window into Makine's own evolution as a writer.
In an orphan school, a young Russian boy befriends Vardan, an Armenian child who, because mature and sensitive, is tormented by schoolyard…

Gerade beim Nachschauen gesehen, dass dieses Buch inzwischen zumindest mal auf Englisch erschienen ist:
Acclaimed Novelist Andrei Makine Celebrates True Patriotism in This Time of False Heroes
Jean-Claude Servan-Schreiber enlisted in the French army at the outset of World War II and quickly rose to the rank of lieutenant. Despite his patriotism and courage in defending his country, in which he narrowly escaped death several times, he suffered the bigotry of his fellow soldiers until he was…

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Agli estremi confini orientali della Russia, dentro al vento del Pacifico, per terre immense che sembrano sfuggite alla storia, Pavel Gartsev e i suoi compagni danno la caccia a un criminale dal volto sconosciuto. Pavel, nato e cresciuto nella Russia di Stalin, ha un passato di solitudine e abbandoni: rimasto orfano da bambino in circostanze che non conosce, ha vissuto, soldato ancora giovanissimo, tutta la violenza della seconda guerra…