Brief loves that live forever : a novel
Makine, Andrei (, 1957-)
Brief loves that live forever : a novel / Andreï Makine ; translated from the French by Geoffrey Strachan. - Minneapolis, MN : Graywolf Press , 2015 - 134 p. ; 21 cm
In Soviet Russia the desire for freedom is also a desire for the freedom to love. Lovers live as outlaws, traitors to the collective spirit, and love is more intense when it feels like an act of resistance. Now entering middle age, an orphan recalls the fleeting moments that have never left him: a scorching day in a blossoming orchard with a woman who loves another; a furtive, desperate affair in a Black Sea resort; the bunch of snowdrops a crippled childhood friend gave him to give to his lover.
Translated from the French to English.
9781555977122
Interpersonal relations----Fiction
Soviet Union----Fiction
FIC MAK
Brief loves that live forever : a novel / Andreï Makine ; translated from the French by Geoffrey Strachan. - Minneapolis, MN : Graywolf Press , 2015 - 134 p. ; 21 cm
In Soviet Russia the desire for freedom is also a desire for the freedom to love. Lovers live as outlaws, traitors to the collective spirit, and love is more intense when it feels like an act of resistance. Now entering middle age, an orphan recalls the fleeting moments that have never left him: a scorching day in a blossoming orchard with a woman who loves another; a furtive, desperate affair in a Black Sea resort; the bunch of snowdrops a crippled childhood friend gave him to give to his lover.
Translated from the French to English.
9781555977122
Interpersonal relations----Fiction
Soviet Union----Fiction
FIC MAK
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