Издания и произведения

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, nineteen-year-old Boris Koptek left the village to join the Russian army, swearing to the sixteen-year-old love of his life, Vera, that as soon as he returned they would marry. Young Boris, who with his engineering battalion fought his way almost to Berlin, was reported killed in action crossing the Spree River. But Vera refuses to believe he is dead, and each day, all these years later, faithfully…

By a master of European literature, a sensual, absorting tale of the human capacity for enduring love, selfish passion and cowardly betrayal. In a hamlet amid the austere beauty of northern Russia lives the woman who waited, still expecting her lover to return from the Second World War after thirty years. A young, rebellious writer from Leningrad, fascinated by her fruitless fidelity, seeks to unravel her secrets - but the closer he comes to her, the more she surprises him.

Un village du nom de Mirnoïé, sur les bord de la mer Blanche. Ici, tout paraît flotter hors du temps : maisons isolées, à moitié en ruines, peuplées de veuves octogénaires dont les maris sont morts dans les combats contre le nazisme. Nous sommes au milieu des années soixante-dix. La contrée est sillonnée quelquefois par un camionneur géorgien à l’humour truculent et mélancolique, monomaniaque du sexe, mais profondément bon. Otar prend à son bord le jeune thésard venu de Leningrad, narrateur de ce récit, et entreprend son éducation sentimentale. « Je veux te donner un conseil, tu es jeune, ça peut te servir. Dans l’amour (…), pour ne pas…