by Andreï Makine · Mercure de France · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782715223752
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«La terre et le ciel de Jacques Dorme» is the novel by Andreï Makine, published by Mercure de France in paperback (208 pages, in French).
The narrator, a young orphan who visits his French godmother in the Soviet Union, reconstructs the story of Jacques Dorme, an aviator who experiences a brief love in a city doomed to ruin and dies crashing into a frozen slope of the polar circle. The novel links that memory with the search for origins and a certain ideal of France.
Third instalment of Andreï Makine's Franco-Russian trilogy, alongside Le Testament français and Requiem for the East.
Novel for readers of literary fiction interested in memory, war, and the ties between France and 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.
