It has been over 30 years since Andreï Makine swapped his native Russia for France, and his native Russian for French—and still the Motherland exerts its terrible pull. The instinct is not ...

Andrei Makine, Author, Geoffrey Strachan, Translator, trans. from the French by Geoffrey Strachan. Arcade $23.95 (207p) ISBN 978-1-55970-687-2.

Requiem for a Lost EmpireBy Andrei Makine, translated by Geoffrey StrachanArcade, 252 pages, $24.95Like Vladimir Nabokov, the translingual master who pronounced “Lolita” a record of his love ...

The latest from Andrei Makine — often described as a Russian Proust — tells the story of Ivan Shutov, a disillusioned writer who tries to reconnect with his native Russia after decades as an ...

Andrei Makine has been compared to Tolstoy Credit: Photo: Rii Schroer So classical in form and so precise in execution are Andreï Makine’s novels of Russia that one half-expects their author to ...

The story of Andreï Makine's arrival as a writer has passed into French literary legend. He was 30 when he came to Paris from Siberia, where he had worked as a teacher and toiled over a slim ...

Andrei Makine: “French gives me the distance writers need. You need to be away from something, a memory, a country.” Photograph: Eric Luke . Eileen Battersby. Mon Mar 14 2016 - 01:00.

THE LIFE OF AN UNKNOWN MAN By Andrei Makine Graywolf Press, $15 194 pages. This fine novel opens with a lonely man in a cramped attic apartment in Paris reading Chekhov. He is lonely because his ...

Andrei Makine: Yes, it is true that France and the French are very bavard, as you say, but on the other hand they can also be very brainy, very intellectual, ...

The Woman Who Waited tells the story of a woman's 30-year wait for the man she loves to return from the front during WW2, a wait that seems impossible and inhuman in the eyes of the book's ...