by Andrei Makine · Sceptre · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780340682067
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«Le Testament français» is the novel by Andrei Makine, published by Sceptre in paperback (288 pages, in English).
Under the Soviet regime, a boy grows up in the Siberian steppe with his French grandmother's memories of a vanished France. The narrative reveals his life in Russia during the revolution and the Second World War. Divided between two cultures, he travels to Paris after the fall of the Berlin Wall and discovers how much his imagination had idealized.
Translated from the French by Geoffrey Strachan. Winner of the Prix Goncourt, the Prix Médicis and the Prix Goncourt des Lycéens in 1995.
For readers of literary and historical fiction who enjoy stories of family memory and encounters between cultures.
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.
