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Dreams of my Russian summers

Every summer, young Andrei visits his grandmother, Charlotte Lemmonier, whom he loves dearly. In a dusty village overlooking the vast Russian steppes, she captivates her grandson and the other children of the village with wondrous tales-watching Proust play tennis in Neuilly, Tsar Nicholas II's visit to Paris, French president Felix Faure dying in the arms of his mistress. But from his mysterious grandmother, Andrei also learns of a Russia he has never known: a country of famine and misery, brutal injustice, and the hopeless chaos of war. Enthralled, he weaves her stories int.

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  • "Testament français"@pl
  • "Testament français"
  • "Testament français"@it
  • "Le testament français"

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  • "Dreams of My Russian Summers tells the poignant story of a boy growing up amid the harsh realities of Soviet life in the 1960s and '70s, and of his extraordinary love for an elegant Frenchwoman, Charlotte Lemonnier, who is his grandmother. Every summer he visits his grandmother in a dusty village overlooking the vast steppes. Here, during the warm evenings, they sit on Charlotte's narrow, flower-covered bacony and listen to tales from another time, another place: Paris at the turn of the century."
  • "Every summer, young Andrei visits his grandmother, Charlotte Lemmonier, whom he loves dearly. In a dusty village overlooking the vast Russian steppes, she captivates her grandson and the other children of the village with wondrous tales-watching Proust play tennis in Neuilly, Tsar Nicholas II's visit to Paris, French president Felix Faure dying in the arms of his mistress. But from his mysterious grandmother, Andrei also learns of a Russia he has never known: a country of famine and misery, brutal injustice, and the hopeless chaos of war. Enthralled, he weaves her stories int."@en
  • "Every summer, young Andrei visits his grandmother, Charlotte Lemmonier, whom he loves dearly. In a dusty village overlooking the vast Russian steppes, she captivates her grandson and the other children of the village with wondrous tales watching Proust play tennis in Neuilly, Tsar Nicholas II s visit to Paris, French president Felix Faure dying in the arms of his mistress. But from his mysterious grandmother, Andrei also learns of a Russia he has never known: a country of famine and misery, brutal injustice, and the hopeless chaos of war.Enthralled, he weaves her stories into his own secret universe of memory and dream. She creates for him a vivid portrait of the France of her childhood, a distant Atlantis far more elegant, carefree, and stimulating than Russia in the 1970s and 80s. Her warm, artful memories of her homeland and of books captivate Andrei. Absorbed in this vision, he becomes an outsider in his own country, and eventually a restless traveler around Europe. Dreams of My Russian Summers is an epic full of passion and tenderness, pain and heartbreak, mesmerizing in every way."
  • "A Frenchwoman's account of Russia before and after the 1917 revolution. She is Charlotte who came as a nurse in World War I and married a Russian lawyer. The story is told by her grandson who listened to her tales, fascinated by her power of observation."
  • "A Frenchwoman's account of Russia before and after the 1917 revolution. She is Charlotte who came as a nurse in World War I and married a Russian lawyer. The story is told by her grandson who listened to her tales, fascinated by her power of observation."@en
  • "Een jongen groeit op in het barre communistische Rusland van na de Tweede Wereldoorlog onder de hoede van zijn grootmoeder van Franse origine."
  • "On the edge of the Siberian steppes, a young boy grows up listening to his French grandmother's stories of France just before the Great War - a nostalgic portrait of a vanished world, but a bewitching one during the Soviet regime. Torn between two cultures, he eventually leaves after the fall of the Berlin Wall for Paris."@en
  • "A travers les récits que Charlotte Lemonnier, Française égarée en Russie, fait à son petit-fils, celui-ci découvre une vision mythique de la France. Prix Goncourt et prix Médicis en 1995."
  • ""Travers les récits que Charlotte Lemonnier, Française égarée en Russie, fait à son petit-fils, celui-ci découvre une vision mythique de la France. Prix Goncourt et prix Médicis en 1995."
  • "A boy growing up in the Soviet Union of the 1960s and 1970s visits his French grandmother each summer, accumulating new tales of a Russia he never knew."
  • "Par un auteur d'origine russe installé en France et dont une grand-mère d'origine française vit en Russie. Un quatrième roman d'inspiration autobiographique écrit directement en français comme les précédents, même si Makine a fait croire que les deux premiers étaient traduits du russe. Le héros est un garçon né en Russie (en Sibérie) qui, depuis son plus jeune âge, rêve de la France comme d'une "Atlantide" (A. Makine), bercé par les histoires, les fables et les contes d'une grand-mère française. Une oeuvre rêveuse et fervente qui invite le lecteur à flâner et à se souvenir de certaines rudes réalités soviétiques. Prix Médicis et prix Goncourt 1995. Prix Goncourt des lycéens français 1995. [SDM]."
  • "A travers les récits que Charlotte, Française égarée en Russie , fait à son petit-fils, celui-ci découvre une vision mythique de la France. Pourtant c'est le destin russe de Charlotte qui effacera la sérénité de ses souvenirs français. Prix Goncourt et Prix Médicis1995."

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  • "Texts"
  • "Bildungsromans"@en
  • "Bildungsromans"
  • "Translations"
  • "Domestic fiction"
  • "Francouzské romány"
  • "Autobiographical fiction"
  • "French fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Electronic books"
  • "Popular literature"
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Vertalingen (vorm)"
  • "History"@en
  • "History"
  • "Genres littéraires"
  • "French literature"@en
  • "General fiction"@en
  • "Powieść francuska"@pl
  • "Powieść francuska"
  • "Romans (teksten)"

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  • "法蘭西遺囑 = Le testament français"
  • "Ranskalainen testamentti"@fi
  • "Ranskalainen testamentti"
  • "Le Testament francais roman"
  • "צוואה צרפתית"
  • "Det franske testamente"
  • "Dreams of my Russian summers"@en
  • "Dreams of my Russian summers"
  • "Le testament Français"
  • "El Testament francès"@ca
  • "Le Testament français"@en
  • "Le Testament français"
  • "Le testament francais : roman"
  • "Tsaṿaʼah Tsarfatit"
  • "al-Waṣīyah al-Firansīyah"
  • "Det franske testamente : roman"@da
  • "Das französische Testament Roman"
  • "Het Franse testament : roman"
  • "Le testament français"
  • "Le testament français"@en
  • "Le testament français : roman"
  • "El testamento francés"@es
  • "El testamento francés"
  • "El Testamento francés"
  • "Het Franse testament"
  • "Le testament français ; Confession d'un porte-drapeau déchu"
  • "Francusko zaveštanje"
  • "Testament Francais"@en
  • "Francouzský testament"
  • "法蘭西遺囑"
  • "al-Waṣiyya al-faransiyya : riwāya"
  • "Le testament français : Roman"
  • "Testamentul francez : [roman]"
  • "Dreams of My Russian Summers a Novel"@en
  • "Falanxi yi zhu = Le testament français"
  • "Il testamento francese"
  • "Il testamento francese"@it
  • "Le testament français : [roman]"
  • "Das französische Testament : Roman. Aus dem Franz"
  • "El testament francès"
  • "El testamento frances"
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  • "Fa lan xi yi zhu"
  • "Testamentul francez"
  • "Das französische Testament : Roman"
  • "Francuski testament"@pl
  • "Francuski testament"
  • "El Testamento frances"
  • "Le testament francais"
  • "Le testament francais"@en
  • "Pritsanā nai sāilom rō̜n = Le testament français"

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