Woman Who Waited
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Author_Andrei Makine
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French literary classic
Russia
Second World War
tragic love story
Product details
- ISBN 9780340837375
- Weight: 160g
- Dimensions: 128 x 196mm
- Publication Date: 22 Feb 2007
- Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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'Achingly beautiful' Guardian
'By turns touching and profoundly sad' Spectator
When a young, rebellious writer from Leningrad arrives in a remote Russian village to study local customs, one woman stands out: Vera, who has been waiting thirty years for her lover to return from the Second World War. As fascinated as he is appalled by the fruitless fidelity of this still beautiful woman, he sets out to win her affections. But the better he thinks he understands her the more she surprises him, and the more he gains uncomfortable insights into himself.
Lyrically evoking the haunting beauty of the Archangel region, Makine tells a timeless story of the human heart and its capacity for enduring love, selfish passion and cowardly betrayal.
Andreï Makine is an internationally bestselling author. His novel Le Testament Français won the Goncourt Prize and the Medicis Prize, the two highest literary awards in France, going on to sell over a million copies and publish in twenty-nine countries. Born in Siberia in 1957 and raised in the Soviet Union, Makine was granted asylum in France in 1987. He lives in Paris.
