Human Love - Hardcover

Makine, Andrei

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ISBN 10: 1559708573 ISBN 13: 9781559708579

Publisher: Arcade Pub, 2008

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Rescued from certain death by a Catholic priest, African youth Elias Almedia becomes a brilliant pupil before memories about his heroic parents prompt his support of a worldwide revolutionary movement, for which he trains in the arts of espionage and sabotage before falling in love with a white woman and realizing he wants a simpler life.

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Review:

Praise for THE WOMAN WHO WAITED (.)

'Makine packs great steppes-full of history and passion into compact, bejewelled boxes of prose' ( Independent )

'Ravishing' ( The Times )

'Achingly beautiful' ( Guardian )

'Bewitchingly mysterious . . . Makines reputation rises with every book, and some have claimed that he deserves the Nobel Prize; on the strength of this teasing, emotionally dense novel, its easy to see why' ( Sunday Telegraph )

'Luminous, enthralling . . . The enormity of the Second World War, with more than 20 million Russian dead, is allied with one, inconsolable human tragedy. This is where Makine dazzles. He can make the universal deeply intimate.' ( Herald )

'Beautiful . . . Makine gives us a work about love and its doppelganger, infatuation, which is by turns touching and profoundly sad' ( Spectator )

Book Description:

As shocking as it is moving, a novel about love, ideology and man's inhumanity to man by the internationally renowned Makine

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