The archipelago of another life
Makine, Andreï, 1957-2019
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On the far eastern borders of the Soviet Union, in the sunset of Stalin's reign, soldiers are training for a war that could end all wars, for in the atomic age man has sown the seeds of his own destruction. Among them is Pavel Gartsev, a reservist. Orphaned, scarred by the last great war and unlucky in love, he is an instant victim for the apparatchiks and ambitious careerists who thrive within the Red Army's ranks. Assigned to a search party composed of regulars and reservists, charged with the recapture of an escaped prisoner from a nearby gulag, Gartsev finds himself one of an unlikely quintet of cynics, sadists and heroes, embarked on a challenging manhunt through the Siberian taiga. But the fugitive, capable, cunning, and evidently at home in the depths of these vast forests, proves no easy prey.
Main title:
The archipelago of another life / Andreï Makine ; translated by Geoffrey Strachan.
Imprint:
London : MacLehose Press, 2019.
Collation:
240 pages ; 21 cm
Notes:
Translated from the French.
ISBN:
9780857057938 (pbk)
Dewey class:
FICTION
Language:
EnglishFrench
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BRN:
2791532
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