Description
| Product ID: | 9780340936412 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Le Testament Francais |
| Authors: | Author: Andrei Makine, Geoffrey Strachan |
| Page Count: | 288 |
| Subjects: | Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating The first novel to win both the Prix Goncourt and Prix Médicis Locked behind the Iron Curtain, a young boy grows up bewitched by his French grandmother''s memories of Paris before the Great War. Yet despite what he also learns of her suffering in the Soviet Union under Stalin and during the Second World War, as an adolescent he finds himself proud to be a Russian. Torn between the two cultures, he eventually makes a choice - which has a wholly unexpected outcome. |
| Imprint Name: | Sceptre |
| Publisher Name: | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2006-12-28 |
