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Le Testament Français

Andreï Makine

On the edge of the Siberian steppes, a young boy grows up listening to his French grandmother's stories of France just before the Great War - a nostalgic portrait of a vanished world, but a bewitching one during the Soviet regime. Gradually the story emerges of his grandmother's subsequent life in Russia, through the horrors of the revolution and World War II. Torn between two cultures, he eventually leaves after the fall of the Berlin Wall for Paris, and discovers how far his imagination led him from reality. But he stays, until a letter arrives containing an astonishing revelation.

GenresGrandparent and childRussiaSiberiaFictionWorld War, 1939-1945Soviet Union

275 pages, 6 editions

English edition · First published 1997 by Sceptre · ISBN 9780340682050

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Editions

6 editions

English

  • Le Testament Français · Sceptre · 1997 · ISBN 9780340682050 This page

French

  • Le Testament Français · "Le Figaro" · 2022 · ISBN 9782810509553
  • Le Testament Français - Prix Goncourt · Le Mercure de France · 2013 · ISBN 9782715234864
  • Le Testament Français · Gallimard · 2004 · ISBN 9782072855825
  • Le Testament Français · Livraphone · 2000 · ISBN 9782878091137
  • Le Testament Français · Feryane · 1996 · ISBN 9782840111443

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