The Woman Who Waited by Makine Andrei
'Ravishing' (The Times): a compelling, brilliant novel from a master of European literature, a bestseller in France.
'Ravishing' * The Times *
'Achingly beautiful' * Guardian *
'Bewitchingly mysterious..Makine's reputation rises with every book, and some have claimed that he deserves the Nobel Prize; on the strength of this teasing, emotionally dense novel, it's easy to see why' * Sunday Telegraph *
'Luminous, enthralling...The enormity of the Second World War, with more than 20 million Russian dead, is allied with one, inconsolable human tragedy. This is where Makine dazzles. He can make the universal deeply intimate.' * Herald *
'Beautiful...Makine gives us a work about love and its doppelganger, infatuation, which is by turns touching and profoundly sad' * Spectator *
'Achingly beautiful' * Guardian *
'Bewitchingly mysterious..Makine's reputation rises with every book, and some have claimed that he deserves the Nobel Prize; on the strength of this teasing, emotionally dense novel, it's easy to see why' * Sunday Telegraph *
'Luminous, enthralling...The enormity of the Second World War, with more than 20 million Russian dead, is allied with one, inconsolable human tragedy. This is where Makine dazzles. He can make the universal deeply intimate.' * Herald *
'Beautiful...Makine gives us a work about love and its doppelganger, infatuation, which is by turns touching and profoundly sad' * Spectator *
Andreï Makine is an internationally bestselling author. His novel Le Testament Français won the Goncourt Prize and the Medicis Prize, the two highest literary awards in France, going on to sell over a million copies and publish in twenty-nine countries. Born in Siberia in 1957 and raised in the Soviet Union, Makine was granted asylum in France in 1987. He lives in Paris.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780340837375 |
| ISBN 10 | 0340837373 |
| Title | The Woman Who Waited |
| Author | Makine Andrei |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Year published | 2007-02-22 |
| Number of pages | 192 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2008 |
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