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A Life's Music by Andrei Makine
24.99 NZD
26.95 (7% off)
Category: Fiction
In a snowbound railway station deep in the Soviet Union, an old man sits playing the piano. He is Alexei Berg, a budding concert pianist whose career was tragically cut short. When the Moscow train arrives he shares a compartment with a stranger, and begins to tell his haunting story.
Brief Loves That Live Forever by Andrei Makine
39.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
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 scor ...Show more
Doctor Who: The Essential Guide by Makine Andrei
37.00 NZD
Category: Science Fiction | Series: Doctor Who
"A new edition of the ultimate and most essential guide to Doctor Who, now updated to include all twelve incarnations of the Doctor and covering all his newest adventures from Series 8 and 9. With fascinating facts from all of space and time, as well as information on the Doctor's helpful companions and ...Show more
Human Love by Andrei Makine
27.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
'A haunting, often very tender story written in a kind of meditative fury!one of the best novels about Africa in a long time' Christopher Hope, Guardian As a child, Elias Almeida loses both his parents during the Angolan uprising against colonial rule. As an adult and professional revolutionary, he bear ...Show more
The Earth and Sky of Jacques Dorme by Andrei Makine
27.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
An astounding novel that penetrates the 20th-century experience, from one of Europe's most feted authors. In present-day France a Russian writer recalls his harsh childhood at a Stalingrad orphanage in the 1960s and the old Frenchwoman, a family friend, whose tales fed his dreams of a better world. One ...Show more
The Life of an Unknown Man by Andrei Makine
27.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
One night in St Petersburg, two men meet, both adrift in the brash new Russia: Shutov, a writer visiting after years of exile in Paris, and Volsky, an elderly survivor of the Siege of Leningrad and Stalin's purges. His life story - one of extreme suffering, courage and an extraordinary love - he conside ...Show more
The Life of an Unknown Man by Andrei Makine
39.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
Jilted by his girlfriend and disillusioned by modern France, the writer Shutov revisits St Petersburg after twenty years in exile, hoping to reconnect with his roots and the woman he loved in his youth. But she, and the brash new Russia that greets him, are not what he was expecting at all. Then he enco ...Show more
The Woman Who Waited by Andrei Makine
27.99 NZD
44.99 (37% off)
Category: General Fiction
This is the bestselling new novel from a master of European literature, a grippingly unpredictable, sensual tale of longing and betrayal. When a young dissident writer from Leningrad arrives in a remote Russian village to study local customs, one woman stands out: Vera, who has been waiting thirty years ...Show more
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