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Makine, Andrei Requiem for a Lost Empire
New York Arcade Publishing 30-Aug-01 155970571X / 9781559705714 Hardcover
This luminous, beautifully crafted new novel by much-praised Russian ‚migr‚ author Makine (Dreams of My Russian Summers, etc.) takes as its subject three generations of a Russian family, caught in the violent political struggles of the 20th century. The novel begins after the Russian revolution, when Pavel, a Russian farmer, refuses to comply with the demands of Stalin's government. The novel then jumps to late-20th-century Russia, where Pavel's son is swept into a murderous web of KGB espionage, falls in love and then loses his lover in the maelstrom of historical change. When he next hears of her, she has been murdered. The novel gradually becomes a tale of revenge, as the spy goes to Florida to find his lover's killer. The outcome, however, is not what he expects. Shortly after the novel introduces Pavel's son, we learn the story of Pavel's father, a deserter from the Red Army, followed by the story of Pavel himself. Each temporal leap the novel makes illuminates and defines its crucial events, rather than muddying the waters. Makine writes lyrically, baring his struggling characters' emotions and vivifying their oft-chaotic backdrops with equal brio. As the young spy's friends and family disappear from his life, his memories become the only things left for him; Makine renders these in brilliantly sharp detail. The arc of the novel shows, above all, that life patterns repeat themselves; we watch the same conflicts playing themselves out in the three life stories presented here. Throughout, Makine displays the sensitivity and honesty of his acclaimed previous works. Agent, Georges Borchardt. (Aug.)Forecast: Makine shows impressive staying power with this fifth novel to be published in English translation, and Arcade is demonstrating its faith with a first printing of 25,000 copies. Chances are good that the writer's reader base will continue to grow steadily. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc. From Library Journal Since his magisterial Dreams of My Russian Summer, Makine has released four novels in the United States (including this one), all lovely echoes in a minor key of that grand work. This is not to say that the succeeding works are either less successful or less original but that they all pick up themes from Dreams and investigate them more thoroughly. This newest novel is both a little weightier and a little more challenging than the previous three; Makine is always elliptical and dreamlike when telling his tale, but this one is particularly fractured, told in both first person (addressing a missing woman) and third person. At its heart is a former spy at odds with his past when the Soviet Union is no more and turns out to have been wrenchingly all for naught. As he recalls his family, which must endure revolution, World War II, and ostracism as enemies of the people, we are hit by the plentitude of Russia's tragedy in this century. How could the Russian people have suffered so much for so little? Makine is on his way to writing his own distinctive Com?die Humaine, and this is an important part of the whole, so don't miss it. Barbara Hoffert, Library Journal Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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