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Once Upon the River Love (Paperback)
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Once Upon the River Love (Paperback)
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In the immense virgin pine forests of Siberia, where the snows of
winter are vast and endless, sits the little village of Svetlaya.
Once, the village had been larger, more prosperous, but time and
the pendulum of history had reduced it by the 1970s to no more than
a cluster of izbas.
But for three young men--the handsome young Alyosha, the crippled
Utkin, and the older, dashing Samurai--little is needed to
construct their own special universe. Despite the harshness of the
environment and their meager resources, the three adolescents form
a tight band of friendship and dream of another life, a world of
passion and love. And when they learn one day that a Western film
is being shown in the closest real city, they trek for hours on
snowshoes to see it. Through that film, the boys' lives are changed
forever.
Written from the perspective of twenty years after these youthful
events, "Once Upon the River Love" follows the destinies of these
three young idealists up to the present day, to the boardwalks of
Brighton Beach and the jungles of Central America.
With the same mastery of plot and prose that marked the author's"
Dreams of My Russian Summers," this novel demonstrates Makine's
remarkable ability to recreate the past with such precision and
beauty that the present becomes all the more poignant.
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