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Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: 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 scorching day in a blossoming orchard with a woman who loves another; a furtive, desperate affair…

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: 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 scorching day in a blossoming orchard with a woman who loves another; a furtive, desperate affair…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 840 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 362) Аннотация: Défendre cette femme... Effacer les clichés qui la défigurent. Briser le masque que le mépris a scellé sur son visage. Aimer cette femme dont tant d'hommes n'ont su que convoiter le corps et envier le pouvoir. C'est cette passion qui anime le cinéaste russe Oleg Erdmann, désireux de sonder le mystère de la Grande Catherine. Qui était-elle? Une cruelle…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Elias Almeida, professional revolutionary, has seen mankind at its pitiless worst. Witness as a child to the death of both his parents in uprisings in Angola and the Congo, and later as a Soviet agent at the heart of African politics, he has observed murder, rape, pillage and starvation in the name of ideology, and suffered imprisonment and torture. Yet he continues to believe in a better world…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 228 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 242) Аннотация: »Dreams of My Russian Summers» tells the poignant story of a boy growing up amid the harsh realities of Soviet life in the 1960s and 1970s, and of his extraordinary love for an elegant Frenchwoman, Charlotte Lemonnier, who is his grandmother. During the warm summer evenings spent on her front porch, she recounts to him tales from another time and place--Paris at the turn of the century.

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: The compelling, brilliant new novel from a master of European literature, a bestseller in France.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: An astounding novel that penetrates the 20th-century experience, from one of Europe`s most feted authors.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: A 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, 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. Locked behind the Iron Curtain, a young boy grows up bewitched by…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: A novel spanning the history of Russia through the tumultuous 20th century, from the only writer ever to have won both the Prix Goncourt and the Prix Medicis.

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 112) Аннотация: A story of courage and survival in the face of great adversity.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 743 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 343) Аннотация: «Tout devait être exactement ainsi, elle le comprenait à présent: cette femme, cet adolescent, leur indicible intimité dans cette maison suspendue au bord d'une nuit d'hiver, au bord d'un vide, étrangère à ce globe grouillant de vies humaines, hâtives et cruelles. Elle l'éprouva comme une vérité suprême. Une vérité qui se…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: Olga Arbyelina, a White Russian princess living quietly with her adolescent son in a small French town, is a relative newcomer to the Russian community there. Intriguingly little is known about her when, in the summer of 1947, she is suspected of murdering a fellow emigre, only for the case to be dropped. As the story of the preceding year unfolds, a picture forms of her upbringing in Russia…