Requiem for a Lost Empire (Paperback) by Andrei Makine, Geoffrey Strachan

from jzdro

"Karlus" of the 09/19/08 review has it right. I was born in 1954. One of the earliest things I learned, as a carefree American child, was that Stalin died in 1953. As Makine's narrator travels back and forth in 20th-century time in this realistic fictional memoir, I as reader correlate each ident...

from jonfaith

One could note that I was reading this at the airport when my wife arrived here in the heartland. That wouldn't be true. i was holding the novel. My incessant glaring at the pages didn't yeild any comprehension. i kept staring at the pages. Reading did ensue a few days later and I think I conclud...

from TheAmpersand

"Requiem for a Lost Empire" is, if nothing else, aptly named. It's narrated sometime in the early nineteen nineties by a Russian doctor, a veteran of various unnamed proxy wars, who was raised an orphan. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, he finds himself at loose ends: separated from his st...

from jonfaith

One could note that I was reading this at the airport when my wife arrived here in the heartland. That wouldn't be true. i was holding the novel. My incessant glaring at the pages didn't yeild any comprehension. i kept staring at the pages. Reading did ensue a few days later and I think I conclud...

from Clara53

As far as contents, a most difficult book to read, poignant, soul-wrenching but so true to life in all respects... And I shall never think about any war (and one in particular) in the same way again. But the beauty of expression is so remarkable that it took my breath away (much as the other A.Ma...