by Henri Troyat · FLAMMARION · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782080646149
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«Marie Karpovna» is a novel by French writer Henri Troyat, published by Flammarion in paperback (204 pages, in French).
Summer 1856, Gorbatovo estate: the widow Marie Karpovna rules her serfs and her two sons with an iron hand—Léon, the submissive one, and Alexis, the rebel. Alexis, a civil servant in Saint Petersburg, has returned to ask her for a donation; his mother imposes a condition: move in with her and marry the dull Agathe. A tug-of-war of blackmail and wills.
Novel published in 1984. The cover includes the mention «de l'Académie française» under the author's name.
For readers of literary fiction, especially family and historical novels set in nineteenth-century Russia.
Henri Troyat was a Russian-French writer, biographer, historian, and novelist.
