by Andreï Makine · Touchstone · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780684852683
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«Dreams of My Russian Summers» is the novel by Andreï Makine, published by Touchstone in paperback (241 pages, in English).
The narrator recalls the summers of his childhood in a Russian village with his French grandmother Charlotte. Soviet life in the sixties and seventies intertwines with Charlotte's tales of early twentieth-century Paris: famines, Stalin's purges, and war. The young man weaves a universe of memory and dream marked by love for his land.
English translation by Geoffrey Strachan; work originally published in French as «Le Testament français», winner of the Prix Goncourt and the Prix Médicis.
Novel aimed at the general public, particularly readers of literary and historical fiction about twentieth-century Russia and memory.
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.
