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The Crime of Olga Arbyelina Andrei Makine

The Crime of Olga Arbyelina par Andrei Makine

The Crime of Olga Arbyelina Andrei Makine

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Résumé

The stunning new novel by the author of the international bestseller Le Testament Francais, a dramatic, sensuous tale set in a Russian emigre community in post-war France.

The Crime of Olga Arbyelina Résumé

The Crime of Olga Arbyelina Andrei Makine

Olga Arbyelina, a White Russian princess living quietly with her adolescent son in a small French town, is a relative newcomer to the Russian community there. Intriguingly little is known about her when, in the summer of 1947, she is suspected of murdering a fellow emigre, only for the case to be dropped. As the story of the preceding year unfolds, a picture forms of her upbringing in Russia followed by her exile and marriage in France, and the details of a darker, hidden crime begin to emerge, encircling the narrative in an ever-tightening snare.

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'Beautifully observed and lyrically expressed, the novel slowly ... A tragic story of misplaced erotic love' -- The Times 'Though his blend of memory and imagination has won him comparison with Proust, his broad sweep and mystical vision, his emotional intensity and lyrical elan ... belong to the tradition of nineteenth-century Russian novelists' -- Independent 'Intriguing ... meticulous, lyrical prose ... he charges space with tension and the inanimate with meaning ... Makine deserves our full attention' -- The Sunday Times 'An elaborately haunting work ...Olga's involuted, tormented conciousness becomes a sophisticated pleasure in its own right ... Makine's novel possesses the feverish beauty of a hot-house culture in its final efflorescence' -- Publishers Weekly Structured like a crime novel, but told in the language of a poet... It's a thrilling book, lit with the soft light of despair, withpassages which should shock but whose style caresses, melting this scandalous story into a captivating melody. The readers of Le Testament Francais will rediscover in Olga Arbelina's crime Andrei Makine's beautiful and supple writing, his relish for the waking dream.' -- FIGARO LITTERAIRE

À propos de Andrei Makine

Andrei Makine was born in Siberia in 1957, and taught at the University of Novgorod. In 1987 he left the Soviet Union and sought asylum in Paris, where he lived rough before finding teaching work. His first novel was published in France in 1990, once he'd pretended he'd only translated it from another Russian's original. His third was published under his own name and Olga Arbelina's Crime is his fifth.

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The Crime of Olga Arbyelina Andrei Makine
Andrei Makine
Occasion - Très bon état
Broché
Hodder & Stoughton
20000120
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