Táto epická trilógia sa ponára do hlbín ľudskej pamäte a identity, preplieta nostalgické spomienky s drsnou realitou života. Sledujte protagonistu na jeho ceste cez zložité vzťahy a životné zvraty, ktoré formujú jeho osud v nezabudnuteľnej krajine. Rozprávanie je plné poetickej krásy a hlbokých filozofických úvah o láske, strate a zmysle existencie. Je to dojímavé zobrazenie hľadania koreňov a snahy o pochopenie minulosti.
This international bestseller has been translated into 26 languages and is the first work to win both of France's top literary honors. "A masterpiece. . . . Makine belongs on the shelf of world literature--between Lermontov and Nabokov, a few volumes down from Proust".--"The Atlanta Journal".
Amid the ashes of the Soviet Union a Russian army doctor turned spy addresses the woman he loves - a fellow spy who has shared his shadowy life in Africa, Europe and the Middle East, but who has disappeared. The tale he unfolds spans three generations of his family, ordinary people caught up in the convulsions of the Russian empire in the twentieth century, from the civil war through the Second World War to beyond the fall of communism. It is a tale of brutality and soured dreams yet also one of altruism, tenacity and immense courage, written by a master.
An astounding novel that penetrates the 20th-century experience, from one of Europe's most feted authors