| Record Number |
804518 |
| ISBN |
9780857057938 (paperback) |
| Author |
Makine, Andreï, 1957- author. |
| Title |
The archipelago of another life / Andreï Makine ; translated from the French by Geoffrey Strachan. |
| Publisher/Date |
London : MacLehose Press, 2019. |
| ©2019 |
| Pagination etc. |
235 pages ; 21 cm. |
| Summary Note |
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 atomic age man has sown the seeds of his own destruction. Among them is Pavel Gartsev, a reservist. Orphaned, scarred by the last great war and unlucky in love, he is an instant victim for the apparatchiks and ambitious careerists who thrive within the Red Army's ranks. Assigned to a search party composed of regulars and reservists, charged with the recapture of an escaped prisoner from a nearby gulag, Gartsev finds himself one of an unlikely quintet of cynics, sadists and heroes, embarked on a challenging manhunt through the Siberian taiga. But the fugitive, capable, cunning and evidently at home in the depths of these vast forests, proves no easy prey. As the pursuit goes on, and the pursuers are struck by a shattering discovery, Gartsev confronts both the worst within himself and the tantalising prospect of another, totally different life. |
| Language note |
Translated from the French. |
| Subject |
Escaped prisoners -- Fiction |
| Fugitives from justice -- Fiction |
| Soviet Union -- Armed Forces -- Reserves -- Fiction |
| Soviet Union -- History -- 1953-1985 -- Fiction |
| Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1953-1985 -- Fiction |
| Action and adventure fiction. |
| Added Author |
Strachan, Geoffrey translator. |
| Shelf Location |
F MAKI |
