The Woman Who Waited by Makine Andrei
When a young dissident writer from Leningrad arrives in a remote Russian village to study local customs, one woman stands out: Vera, who has been waiting thirty years for her lover to return from the Second World War. As fascinated as he is appalled by the fruitless fidelity of this still beautiful woman, he sets out to win her affections. But the better he thinks understands her the more she surprises him, and the more he gains uncomfortable insights into himself. Lyrically evoking the haunting beauty of the Archangel region, Makine tells a timeless story of the human heart and its capacity for enduring love, selfish passion and cowardly betrayal.
"* 'Undisputedly a novelist of genius.. a remarkable work' - Spectator on THE EARTH AND SKY OF JACQUES D * 'One of the most extraordinary novels I've read for a long time... endlessly fascinating and beautifully written' - Sunday Herald on THE EARTH AND SKY OF JACQU * 'A masterpiece... a novella to be read in a lunch hour and remembered for ever' - Jilly Cooper, Sunday Telegraph Books of the * 'Masterly' - Independent Books of the Year on A LIFE'S M * 'Andrei Makine has been compared to Nabokov, Chekhov, Proust. Far from flattering him, such plaudits barely begin to do him justice' - Spectator on REQUIEM FOR THE EAST * 'There's no author writing today I admire more than Makine. This novel is extraordinary' - Allan Massie, Scotsman on REQUIEM FOR THE E * 'A superb novel... it is Makine's achievement to convey the essential with economy, grace and beauty' - Scotsman on LE TESTAMENT FRANCAIS * 'Great literature, necessary and profound' - Independent on LE TESTAMENT FRANCAIS"
Andrei Makine was born in Krasnoyarsk in Siberia in 1957, but sought asylum in France in 1987. While initially sleeping rough in Paris he was writing his first novel, A HERO'S DAUGHTER, which was eventually published in 1990 after Makine pretended it had been translated from the Russian, since no publisher believed he could have written it in French. With his third novel, ONCE UPON A RIVER LOVE, he was finally published as a 'French' writer, and with his fourth, LE TESTAMENT FRANCAIS, he became the first author to win both of France's top literary prizes, the Prix Goncourt and Prix Medicis. Since then Andrei Makine has written THE CRIME OF OLGA ARBYELINA, REQUIEM FOR THE EAST, A LIFE'S MUSIC, which won the Grand Prix RTL-Lire, and THE EARTH AND SKY OF JACQUES DORME.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780340837368 |
| ISBN 10 | 0340837365 |
| Title | The Woman Who Waited |
| Author | Andre Makine |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Year published | 2006-04-10 |
| Number of pages | 192 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2008 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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