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The Earth and Sky of Jacques Dorme

Andreï Makine

In present-day France a Russian writer recalls his harsh childhood at a Stalingrad orphanage in the 1960s and the old Frenchwoman, a family friend, whose tales fed his dreams of a better world. One story in particular has stayed with him: that of her brief, passionate affair, during World War II, with the French fighter pilot Jacques Dorme, who subsequently died in a plane crash in the Siberian mountains. So the narrator decides to retrace Jacques Dorme's steps, beginning a journey which leads him not only to revisit the land of his birth but also to see his adopted homeland in an unflattering new light. A profound and moving novel about the dangers of ideology and of war, delivered with humour, sensuousness and great lyricism.

  • Classification : General & Literary Fiction
  • Pub Date : JAN 1, 2007
  • Imprint : Sceptre
  • Page Extent : 192
  • Binding : PB
  • ISBN : 9780340831267
  • Price : INR 575
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Andreï Makine

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