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Once upon the River Love
Once upon the River Love
Author: Andrei Makine, Geoffrey Strachan
In this brilliant, affecting novel, acclaimed Russian novelist Andrei Makine takes readers to the vast, remote forests of eastern Siberia to tell the story of Alyosha, Utkin, and Samurai, three boys on the verge of manhood. Isolated by history as well as geography, with only the passing lights of the Transsiberian train to assure them of an outs...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780140283624
ISBN-10: 0140283625
Publication Date: 8/1/1999
Pages: 12
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Publisher: Penguin Books
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover, Audio Cassette
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Set in the 1970s in the vast, remote forests of eastern Siberia, this novel tells the story of three boys on the verge of manhood isolated in the cold nothingness that is Siberia. 20 years after seeing actor Jean-Paul Belmondo seduce a cast of beautiful women 18 times, they come to America with the intention of continuing in their hero's footsteps.
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