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"Qu'importe l'éternité de la damnation à qui a trouvé dans une seconde l'infini de la jouissance", Baudelaire. Tel serait l'esprit de cette saga lapid

An astounding novel that penetrates the 20th-century experience, from one of Europe's most feted authors

Set in Siberia in the 1970s during the decline of the Soviet Empire, My Armenian Friend is a story about how one friendship can shift our perspective

As shocking as it is moving, a novel about love, ideology and man's inhumanity to man by the internationally renowned Makine.

The compelling, brilliant new novel from a master of European literature, a bestseller in France

The first novel to win both the Prix Goncourt and Prix Medicis

A tense "Siberian Western" set in the inhospitable, boundless Russia taiga at the height of the Cold War

Did sex bring down the Iron Curtain? An orphan reflects on the unbreakable bond between love and freedom in the Soviet Union...

An extraordinary story of love and endurance during the Siege of Leningrad lies at the heart of a magnificent novel about Russia past and present, and

On the far eastern borders of the Soviet Union, in the sunset of Stalin's reign, soldiers are training for a war that could end all wars, for in the a

A Russian filmmaker finds love where he leasts expects it