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With remarkable concision, he takes what could be vast and weighty topics - nationality, identity, memory and truth - and creates a series of unforgettable images and incidents. (Daily Mail)
'I was mightily impressed by The Earth and Sky of Jacques Dorme . . . it's beautifully crafted and still resonates. A modern masterpiece." (George Rosie, Books of the Year, Sunday Herald)
'Makine packs great steppes-full of history into compact, bejewelled boxes of prose... An epic novel in - perfect - miniature.' (Boyd Tonkin, Independent )
Undisputedly a novelist of genius . . . a remarkable work (Spectator)
One of the most extraordinary novels I've read for a long time . . . endlessly fascinating and beautifully written (Sunday Herald)
Hold[s] the reader in an emotional captivity from which there is no escape till long after the book has been put down (Andrey Kurkov, Guardian)
This is a novel to read, and read again, with ever-deepening admiration. (Allan Massie, Literary Review)
One of the greatest European novelists of our time . . . When you leave a Makine novel, you are simultaneously bereft and enriched. (Herald)
With remarkable concision, he takes what could be vast and weighty topics - nationality, identity, memory and truth - and creates a series of unforgettable images and incidents. (Daily Mail)
'I was mightily impressed by The Earth and Sky of Jacques Dorme . . . it's beautifully crafted and still resonates. A modern masterpiece." (George Rosie, Books of the Year, Sunday Herald)
'Makine packs great steppes-full of history into compact, bejewelled boxes of prose... An epic novel in - perfect - miniature.' (Boyd Tonkin, Independent )
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- PublisherArcade Pub
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 155970828X
- ISBN 13 9781559708289
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages206
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