Confessions of a Fallen Standard-Bearer by Andrei Makine

Confessions of a Fallen Standard-Bearer by Andrei Makine

They are virtual brothers, Arkady and Alyosha, young pioneers in Stalin's postwar world, marching to the clarion call of socialism, to the stirring beat of the drums. The future, they are assured, is bright and beautiful. But what, then, are those endless miles of barbed wire they encounter everywhere along their route?

This is the moving, two-generational tale of two families, those of Yakov Zinger and Pyotr Yevdokimov, fathers of the two young pioneers. Inseparable, the two men have been through the grueling war against the Germans, with all its horror and senseless carnage. Yakov--or Yasha, as he was known--emerged physically intact but scarred forever from the moment he had been lifted out of a mountain of frozen bodies at a camp in liberated Poland. Pyotr, a skilled sniper who operated behind the German lines, lost both his legs, not at the hands of the Germans, but as a result of an artillery mistake by his own forces. Together, in these postwar, Cold War years, the two families try to piece together their shattered lives.

Andrei Makine was born in 1958 and left the former Soviet Union to emigrate to France ten years ago. Dreams of My Russian Summers won both the Goncourt and Medicis prizes, France's two top literary awards, and was a finalist for the 1997 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction.

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ISBN 13	9780142000014
ISBN 10	0142000019
Title	Confessions of a Fallen Standard-Bearer
Author	Andrei Makine
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Penguin Putnam Inc
Year published	2001-09-01
Number of pages	130
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