Andrei Makine was born in Siberia, but writes his novels in French. Le Testament Fran ais was the winner of the Prix Goncourt and the Prix Medici, and the first novel to win both of these prestigious awards. Geoffrey Strachan has translated all Andrei Makine's novels published in English. He was awarded the Scott-Moncrieff Prize for Makine's Le Testament Fran ais.
'Lives in the memory long after the last page is turned ...
Makine's prose is both spare and meditative' Guardian.
*Guardian*
'[Makine's] sombre, perceptive fiction reflects each ebb and flow;
his quiet voice is unique ... he again articulates the profundity
of human experience - no small feat' Irish Times.
*Irish Times*
'Makine's narrator paints a poignant, poetically charged picture of
a repressive society, leavened only by the freedom and
possibilities of love' Mail on Sunday.
*Mail on Sunday*
'[A] poignant meditation on the moments of beauty that make a life
worth living in conditions of institutionalised repression'
Metro.
*Metro*
'Quiet moments of natural beauty and human tenderness ... This
tendency to combine the disparate elements of experience into a
single, resonant whole typifies a style at once spare and lyrical'
Times Literary Supplement.
*Times Literary Supplement*
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