by Andrei Makine · Planeta · tapa dura · ISBN 9788408462231
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«El testamento francés» is the novel by Andrei Makine, published by Planeta in hardback (289 pages, in Spanish).
A boy grows up in the Soviet Union listening to the stories of his grandmother, Charlotte Lemonnier, which evoke a Paris of the early 20th century and a Russia of hunger, wars and repression. Those memories weave an intimate universe of memory and dream that clashes with Soviet reality and explore identity, nostalgia and the clash between cultures.
Work originally published in French in 1995 as «Le Testament français», translated by Javier Albiñana. It won the Goncourt, Médicis and Goncourt des Lycéens prizes.
For readers of fiction and historical fiction interested in memory, cultural identity and the contrast between France and the Soviet Union.
Andreï Yaroslavovich Makine is a French novelist. He also publishes under the pseudonym Gabriel Osmonde. Makine's novels include Dreams of My Russian Summers (1995) which won two top French awards, the Prix Goncourt and the Prix Médicis. He was elected to seat 5 of the Académie Française on 3 March 2016, succeeding Assia Djebar.
