Dreams Of My Russian Summers. by Makine, Andre. (SIGNED by AUTHOR.) - 09/10/2014 1997: Signed Copy

US.,1997. First edition. Hardback. Very good / Very Good. SIGNED by AUTHOR. Dreams. First North American Edition (United States of America). 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. This is a Near fine copy of the first novel of this writer, SIGNED by him on the half-title page. Makine was awarded both the Prix Goncourt and the Prix Medicis for this work, which has been translated from the French by Geoffrey Strachan. Signed by Author. . Hard Cover. Book Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Not Price cut - Short tear on lower back cover. First US Edition. . With authors signature on title page. DREAMS OF MY RUSSIAN SUMMERS has been compared by European critics not only to Boris Pasternak's DR. ZHIVAGO but also to the work of Chekhov. Winner of both of France's top literary prizes, the Goncourt Prize and Medicis Prize, the novel traces a sentimental journey that embraces many of the dramatic events in Russia during this century, telling the poignant story of a boy growing up amid the harsh realities of Soviet life in the 1960s and '70s, and of his extraordinary love for an elegant Frenchwoman, Charlotte Lemonnier, who is his grandmother. During warm summer evenings, they sit on Charlotte's narrow, flower-covered balcony and he listens to her tales from another time, another place--Paris at the turn of the century. But from Charlotte the boy also learns of a Russia he has never known, of famine and misery, of brutal injustice, of the hopeless chaos of war. Mesmerized, the boy weaves Charlotte's stories into his own secret universe of memory and dream in this masterful novel, full of tenderness and passion, but also of pain and heartbreak.

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