by Andreï Makine · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780340751282
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«A Hero's Daughter» is the novel by Andreï Makine, published by Sceptre in paperback (176 pages, in English).
The novel follows Ivan Dimitrovich Davidov, Hero of the Soviet Union after the Battle of Stalingrad, and his daughter Olya, raised in the shadow of his fame. In 1980, a slip at the Moscow Olympics puts her in the KGB's sights. The work portrays the rise and fall of the Soviet regime from World War II to the 1990s.
The novel was translated from French by Geoffrey Strachan and this English edition was published in 2005.
For readers of historical fiction and family dramas set in the Soviet Union.
Andreï Yaroslavovich Makine is a French novelist. He also publishes under the pseudonym Gabriel Osmonde. Makine's novels include Dreams of My Russian Summers (1995) which won two top French awards, the Prix Goncourt and the Prix Médicis. He was elected to seat 5 of the Académie Française on 3 March 2016, succeeding Assia Djebar.
