AndreÏ Makine was born in 1958 in the former Soviet Union. In 1987 he emigrated to France, where he still lives. He is the author of six novels including, most recently, Requiem for a Lost Empire and Dreams of My Russian Summers, which won France's prestigious Goncourt and Médicis prizes in 1995.
The Atlanta Journal Makine belongs on the shelf of world literature
-- between Lermontov and Nabokov, a few volumes down from
Proust.
The Denver Post [A] tour de force...about partings, death, love,
solitude, art, identity...[that] leaves the reader with the feeling
of having gone through an epic.
The New Yorker Makine's dreamlike prose works beautifully when
combined with a strong plot, as it was in his first novel, Dreams
of My Russian Summers, and as it is here.
The Wall Street Journal [C]oncise, fable-like, light-textured yet
morally serious in the highest degree....[R]ead it with delight and
astonishment.
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