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Confessions of a Lapsed Standard-bearer

Confessions of a Lapsed Standard-bearer

by Geoffrey Strachan (Translator), Andreï Makine (Author), Andreï Makine (Author), Geoffrey Strachan (Translator)

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    Paperback 2000

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Synopsis

Addressing himself to his childhood friend Arkadi from exile in Paris, Alyosha recreates their happy years in a village commune outside Leningrad in the 60s, when the sky was always blue and each summer they marched with drum and trumpet at communist youth camp, their eyes set on the glorious future promised by the propaganda machine - until they learn the full horror of what their parents had suffered during the war and under Stalin, and begin to see through the lies.

'Moving and gripping' The Times

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 144
 Edition: New edition
 Publisher: Sceptre
Published: 02 Nov 2000
ISBN 10: 0340728094
ISBN 13: 9780340728093
Book Overview: Andrei Makine's second novel, a luminous elegy for the innocence and certainties of childhood and a stunning portrait of life in Soviet Russia during the Cold War.

Media Reviews
'The pick of the novels...beautiful prose...both a marvellous evocation of childhood and loss of innocence' Hugh MacDonald, The Glasgow Herald
A marvel * L'Echo *
A superb novel * L'Express' *
'Translated from the author's second language, the poetry remains blindingly brilliant, the spiral momentum bringing the reader back to its radiant images, again and again' Observer
The many who loved LE TESTAMENT FRANCAIS will not be disappointed * L'Alsace *
Author Bio
Andrei Makine was born in Siberia in 1957, and taught at the University of Novgorod. In 1987 he left the Soviet Union and sought asylum in France, where he lived rough before finding teaching work. He is the author of the bestselling Le Testament Francais, winner of the Prix Goncourt and Prix Medicis, and an international bestseller. Confessions of a Lapsed Standard-Bearer, his second novel, is his third to be published in English, following The Crime of Olga Arbyelina (Sceptre, 1999).