Requiem for the East

by	Andreï Makine, Geoffrey Strachan

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Weight	0.199 kg
Dimensions	1.8 × 12.8 × 19.5 cm
by	Andreï Makine, Geoffrey Strachan
Format	Paperback
Language	English
Pages	272
Publisher	Hodder & Stoughton
Year Published	2002-2-21
Imprint	Sceptre
Publication City/Country	London, United Kingdom
ISBN 10	0340794364
About The Author	Andreï 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. He is the author of LE TESTAMENT FRANCAIS, the unprecedented winner of both the Prix Goncourt and Prix Médicis and an international bestseller, which was followed by THE CRIME OF OLGA ARBYELINA (Sceptre 99). CONFESSIONS OF A LAPSED STANDARD-BEARER, his second novel, was published in English by Sceptre in 2000.
	The writing is dense and absolutely absorbing. By snapping back and forth through the history of the Soviet Union, Makine shows us both its irresolvable contradictions and its immense draw. This is a beautifully written, all-engrossing, compassionate elegy for a dying empire. I cannot think of a book I have enjoyed more in the past year.
Other text	A magnificent, elegiac novel spanning the history of Russia through the tumultuous 20th century, from the only writer ever to have won both the Prix Goncourt and the Prix Medicis