by Andréï Makine · Tapa dura · ISBN 9782286080181
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«Le testament français» is the novel by Andréï Makine, published in 1995 by Mercure de France in hardback.
A boy grows up in the Soviet Union and spends his summers with his French grandmother, Charlotte, in a Russian village. Her stories about early twentieth-century Paris and about the Russia of famines, wars and purges become a territory of memory and fantasy where the protagonist reconciles his two heritages: France and Russia.
It is the first instalment of the series «Dreams of My Russian Summers» and won the Goncourt, Médicis and Goncourt des Lycéens prizes in 1995.
Readers of literary and historical fiction interested in family memory and the dialogue between French and Russian 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.
