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Name: Requiem for a Lost Empire

Author: Andrei Makine
Year: 2000
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Fiction, Historical fiction
Culture: Russia

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ISBNs:
9780743453622
074345362X

Spanning eight decades Ãfrom the October Revolution of 1917 to the Cold War to the fall of CommunismÃthe book follows the narrator's grand-father, Nikolai, a Red Army deserter who seeks peace and isolation in a remote forest village. Years later, his son Pavel will fight in World War II, become a KGB spy, and, like Nikolai, return to his native Caucasus in a vain attempt to escape the increasing tyrannies of the postwar Soviet era. It is here, amidst the raging warfare, espionage, and crushing poverty, where our narrator is born. Sweeping in its scope and heartbreaking in its truths, Requiem for a Lost Empire is both a harrowing history of the Soviet Union and a loving tribute to the fortitude of its people.

This book is part of the "Dreams of My Russian Summers" series. Here are some other books from this series:

"The Earth and Sky of Jacques Dorme"
First published in 2003
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"Dreams of My Russian Summers"
First published in 1995
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