by Andre Makine · POINTS · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782020787468
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«La femme qui attendait» is the novel by Andreï Makine, published by Points in paperback (224 pages, in French).
In Mirnoïé, by the White Sea, only Véra keeps hope of Koptev's return: thirty years later she still waits for him and checks the mailbox every day with the same illusion, like a Penelope of the north. An anthropology student from Leningrad is fascinated by her and tries to understand a woman who lives on the edge between madness and absolute purity.
The novel was originally published in 2004; this edition appeared in 2005 and is number 1282 in the Points collection.
It will appeal to readers of contemporary literary fiction and to those seeking stories about waiting, memory, and rural Russia.
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.
