Once upon the River Love - Softcover

Once upon the River Love

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. A fascination with romantic movies leads three teenagers growing up in a sm all Soviet village in the 1970s to follow their dreams all the way to Brook lyn's Brighton Beach. About the Author: Born in the Soviet Union in 1957, Makine grew up in Penza, an isolated town about 200 miles from Moscow. Acquiring familiarity with France and its lan guage from his French-born grandmother, he wrote poems in both French and h is native Russian as a boy. In 1987, he was granted political asylum and moved to France, determined to make a living as a writer-in French. However, Makine had to present his first manuscripts as translations from the Russian to overcome publishers' skepticism that a newly arrived exile could write so fluently in a second language. After disappointing reactions to his first two novels, it took eight months to find a publisher for his third, Le testament français. Finally published in 1995 in France, the novel became the first in history to win both of France's most prestigious book awards, the Prix Goncourt and the Prix Medicis. Published in the United States in 1997 as Dreams of My Russian Summers, the novel garnered enthusiastic book reviews and a nomination for a National Book Critics Circle Award. Once Upon the River Love, which was originally published a year before Dreams of My Russian Summers, has met with similar acclaim, including as one of Publishers Weekly's Best Books of 1998. Makine's latest novel, The Crime of Olga Arbyelina, will be published in the fall of 1999. Artikel-Nr. RWARE0000074292

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