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 story in
particular has stayed with him: that of her brief, passionate
affair, during World War II, with the French fighter pilot Jacques
Dorme, who subsequently died in a plane crash in the Siberian
mountains. So the narrator decides to retrace Jacques Dorme's
steps, beginning a journey which leads him not only to revisit the
land of his birth but also to see his adopted homeland in an
unflattering new light. A profound and moving novel about the
dangers of ideology and of war, delivered with humour, sensuousness
and great lyricism.
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