Andre茂 Makine (Author of Dreams of My Russian Summers)

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Andre茂 Makine

Born

in Krasnoyarsk, Russian Federation

September 10, 1957

Genre

Literature & Fiction

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Andre茂 Makine was born in Krasnoyarsk, Soviet Union on 10 September 1957 and grew up in city of Penza, a provincial town about 440 miles south-east of Moscow. As a boy, having acquired familiarity with France and its language from his French-born grandmother (it is not certain whether Makine had a French grandmother; in later interviews he claimed to have learnt French from a friend), he wrote poems in both French and his native Russian.

In 1987, he went to France as member of teacher's exchange program and decided to stay. He was granted political asylum and was determined to make a living as a writer in French. However, Makine had to present his first manuscripts as translations from Russian to overcome publishers' skepticism that a newly ...more

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Average rating: 3.85 · 14,925 ratings · 1,676 reviews · 46 distinct works 鈥� Similar authors

	Dreams of My Russian Summers by Andre茂 Makine, Geoffrey Strachan (Translator) 3.82 avg rating — 4,090 ratings — published 1995 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Music of a Life by Andre茂 Makine, Geoffrey Strachan (Translator) 3.91 avg rating — 2,048 ratings — published 2001 — 60 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Woman Who Waited: A Novel 3.74 avg rating — 1,152 ratings — published 2004 — 46 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	L'Archipel d'une autre vie 4.17 avg rating — 1,015 ratings — published 2016 — 26 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Life of an Unknown Man by Andre茂 Makine, Geoffrey Strachan (Translation) 4.08 avg rating — 942 ratings — published 2009 — 31 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	L'ami arm茅nien 4.07 avg rating — 885 ratings — published 2021 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Brief Loves That Live Forever by Andre茂 Makine, Geoffrey Strachan (Translator) 3.80 avg rating — 925 ratings — published 2011 — 34 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Once Upon the River Love by Andre茂 Makine, Geoffrey Strachan (Translator) 3.87 avg rating — 710 ratings — published 1993 — 42 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Requiem for a Lost Empire by Andre茂 Makine, Geoffrey Strachan (Translator) 3.86 avg rating — 541 ratings — published 2000	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Crime of Olga Arbyelina by Andre茂 Makine, Geoffrey Strachan 3.43 avg rating — 510 ratings — published 1988 — 32 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by Andre茂 Makine

Dreams of My Russian Summers (3 books)
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Andre茂 Makine,

Geoffrey Strachan (Translator)

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Quotes by Andre茂 Makine (?)

“People speak because they are afraid of silence. They speak mechanically whether aloud or to themselves. They are intoxicated by this vocal gruel that ensnares every object and every being. They talk about rain and fine weather; they talk about money, about love, about nothing. And even when they are talking about their most exalted love, they use words uttered a hundred times, threadbare phrases.”
― Andrei Makine

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“(...) the translator of prose is the slave of the author and the translator of poetry is his rival.”
― Andre茂 Makine

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“...she studies to be equal in a world that is no longer surprised at anything”
― Andrei Makine, The Crime of Olga Arbyelina

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Dreams of My Russian Summers by Andre茂 Makine

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