A magnificent story of courage and survival in the face of great adversity
Literary fiction about a Russian who suffers under Stalin's reign of terror. Winner of the Grand Prix RTL-Lire in France. "Extraordinary" Allan Massie.
Avoiding a heavy-handed treatment of Russian history, in little more than 100 pages Makine succeeds not only in condensing the life and loves of one man, but in capturing the fear that pervaded everyday life in Stalin's Soviet Union. It is the perfect riposte to anyone who believes that great Russian literature must be unwieldy and crammed with a cast of thousands