Author: Andreï Makine Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1611454832 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 173
Book Description
With this novel, Andreï Makine, whose work has been compared to that of Balzac, Chekhov, Pasternak, and Proust, brings to a stunning conclusion his epic trilogy that began with Dreams of My Russian Summers and continued with Requiem for a Lost Empire. The novel opens in 1942, in a burning, gutted Stalingrad, where the German and Russian armies are locked in a struggle to the death. Amid these ruins, a French pilot and a nurse, also French, are engaged in a passionate affair that each knows will be hopelessly brief. The pilot, Jacques Dorme, was shot down two years earlier. Imprisoned and sent east to a German POW camp, Dorme made a daring escape and crossed Germany stealthily by night until he arrived in an already devastated Russia, where, having proved his mettle as a pilot, he joined a Russian squadron stationed near Stalingrad. But during the brief time they have together there, the love between Dorme and Alexandra builds and blossoms into a relationship they both know comes but once in a lifetime. Several decades later, the narrator—a Russian exiled in France, a war orphan haunted by his dark childhood and obsessively searching for his roots—travels back to his native land, where in the icy and treacherous wastelands of Siberia he attempts to discover how his life and that of Jacques Dorme are inextricably intertwined.
Author: Ulrich Renz Publisher: Sefa Verlag ISBN: 3739900334 Category : Foreign Language Study Languages : en Pages : 72
Book Description
Heart-warming bedtime story in two languages (English and Portuguese) for children from 2 years. Accompanied by an online audiobook and video in English (British as well as American) Tim can't fall asleep. His little wolf is missing! Perhaps he forgot him outside? Tim heads out all alone into the night – and unexpectedly encounters some friends... ► With printable coloring pages! A download link in the book gives you free access to the pictures from the story to color in. Livro infantil bilingue, a partir de 2 anos (inglês – português) O Tim não consegue adormecer. O seu lobinho desapareceu! Será que ficou esquecido lá fora? Sozinho, o Tim aventura-se pela noite – e encontra companheiros inesperados ... ► Com imagens a colorir para download!
Author: Laurence La Tourette Driggs Publisher: ISBN: Category : Aeronautics Languages : en Pages : 364
Book Description
Written and published prior (the Preface is dated September 24, 1918) to the end of the Great War (now known as World War I) the author describes the advent of aerial warfare and gives a contemporaneous account of those aviators engaged in the conflict.
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