Andrei Makine

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  • Bibliography:
    17 Books
  • First Book:
    September 1998
  • Latest Book:
    November 2023
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Book List in Order: 17 titles

  • Dreams of My Russian Summers

    Every summer, young Andrei visits his grandmother, Charlotte Lemmonier, whom he loves dearly. In a dusty village overlooking the vast Russian steppes, she captivates her grandson and the other children of the village with wondrous tales -- watching P...

  • Once upon the River Love

    A fascination with romantic movies leads three teenagers growing up in a small Soviet village in the 1970s to follow their dreams all the way to Brooklyn's Brighton Beach. By the author of Dreams of My Russian Summers. Reprint....

  • The Crime of Olga Arbyelina

    The summer of ’47. In the sleepy town of Villiers-la-Forêt, roughly an hour from Paris, the peaceful radiance of the day is interrupted by the discovery that, along a nearby riverbank, the body of a man has washed up, a gaping wound in his skull. ...

  • Requiem for a Lost Empire

    In this remarkable novel, which spans eighty years of the twentieth century, Andreï Makine describes, beautifully but unsparingly, the almost uninterrupted succession of violence, misery, and horror that has been visited on the Russian people since ...

  • A Life's Music

    In a snowbound railway station deep in the Soviet Union, a stranded passenger comes across an old man playing the piano in the dark, silent tears rolling down his cheeks. Once on the train to Moscow he begins to tell his story: a tale of loss, love a...

  • A Hero's Daughter

    Set in the Soviet Union from World War II until the early 1990s, A Hero's Daughter portrays the rise and decline of the Soviet Union through the story of Ivan Dimitrovich Davidov and his family. For his extraordinary bravery and courage beyond the c...

  • Music of a Life

    A brief but extraordinarily powerful novel by the author of Dreams of My Russian Summers and Requiem for a Lost Empire, Music of a Life is set in the period just before, and two decades after, World War II.Alexeï Berg’s father is a well-known dram...

  • The Earth and Sky of Jacques Dorme

    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 Empir...

  • The Woman Who Waited

    A moving, utterly captivating love story: Romeo and Juliet as if told by Chekhov or Dostoevsky. In a remote Russian village a woman waits, as she has waited for almost three decades, for the man she loves to return. Near the end of World War II, nine...



  • Human Love

    Love for another person. Love for humanity as a whole. Are the two compatible or mutually exclusive? In his most ambitious novel since Dreams of My Russian Summers, Andreï Makine takes us into the heart of Africa. His hero is Elias Almeida, a black ...

  • The Life of an Unknown Man

    A deeply moving meditation on memory, history, love, and art by the author of Dreams of My Russian SummersIn The Life of an Unknown Man, Andreï Makine explores what truly matters in life through the prism of Russia's past and present.Shutov, a disen...

  • Confessions of a Fallen Standard-Bearer

    They are virtual brothers, Arkady and Alyosha, young pioneers in Stalin's postwar world, marching to the clarion call of socialism, to the stirring beat of the drums. The future, they are assured, is bright and beautiful. But what, then, are those en...

  • Brief Loves That Live Forever

    A beautifully observed and moving account of love and the human spirit in the Soviet eraIn Soviet Russia the desire for freedom is also a desire for the freedom to love. Lovers live as outlaws, traitors to the collective spirit, and love is more inte...

  • A Woman Loved

    The fascinating story of a young Russian filmmaker's attempts to portray Catherine the Great, before and after the collapse of the Soviet UnionCatherine the Great's life seems to have been made for the cinema -- her rise to power; her reportedly coun...

  • The Archipelago of Another Life

    "This novel about hunting an escapee from Stalinist gulag reads like a Siberian Heart of Darkness."  -- ​Julian Barnes On the far eastern borders of the Soviet Union, in the sunset of Stalin’s reign, soldiers are training for a war...

  • The Armenian Friend

    A heart-wrenching novel that is at once an indelible portrait of friendship, a coming-of-age tale, and a dive into the memory of the Armenian Genocide by the Ottoman Empire. Siberia, early seventies. The narrator, a thirteen-year-old orphan, sav...

  • My Armenian Friend

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Andrei Makine has published 17 books.

Andrei Makine does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, My Armenian Friend, was published in November 2023.

The first book by Andrei Makine, Dreams of My Russian Summers, was published in September 1998.

No. Andrei Makine does not write books in series.
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