bookshelves: published-1988, france, mystery-thriller, under-500-ratings, paper-read, one-penny-wonder, hardback, winter-20152016, lit-richer, translation, soviet, newtome-author, spring-2016, adventurous-april-2016, tbr-busting-2016 Recommended to Bettie☯ by: Helen Read from October 29, 2014 to ...
bookshelves: winter-20142015, giftee, books-with-a-passport, soviet, published-1995, translation Recommended to ☯Bettie☯ by: Themis-Athena (Does not and never will own a Kindle) Recommended for: belly button mining lit lovers Read from December 13, 2014 to February 21, 2015 Description: Every ...
The Goncourt prize in France seems to be drawn to Russian writers who can write French better than many French natives.In 1938 it was awarded to Henri Troyat (né Lev Aslanovitch Tarasov) for his L’Araigne. He later became a Member of L’Académie Française. In 1956 and again in 1975 it was awarded t...
Okay, let's try this.I'm rusty. I am rusty. That's the only word I have for what I'm feeling right now. I used to love reading books like this before. I don't know how anymore, because this isn't one of those books that breeze through cursorily, nor is it a book that you can afford to dwell on for t...