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.
Date Published:
1995 - 2022
Main title:
Le testament francais
Creator:
Makine, Andreï, 1957-, author
Language:
FrenchEnglish
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