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    The Woman Who Waited: A Novel

    By Andreï Makine

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    In the 1970s, a woman keeps vigil for a lover lost in World War II, in a “sensuously styled, elegiac” novel by the author of Dreams of My Russian Summers (Publishers Weekly).
     
    Near the end of World War II, nineteen-year-old Boris Koptek left the small village of Mirnoe to join the Russian army. He swore to the sixteen-year-old love of his life, Vera, that as soon as he returned they would marry. Then, young Boris was reported killed in action while crossing the Spree River with his engineering battalion on the way to Berlin. But Vera refused to believe it. For thirty years, she has waited for Boris to come home.
     
    Her extraordinary story, her resilience, and her still-radiant beauty is captivating to a callow young journalist from Leningrad who has just arrived on the northern White Sea coast to research local traditions. Day by day, as he learns more about the enigmatic Vera, he finds himself enriched, changed, and falling under her sad and exquisite spell.
     
    From an award-winning author, this is a “wonderful novel…an elegantly enigmatic tale” (Booklist).
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateNov 7, 2011
    ISBN9781628723632
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    Andreï Makine

    Andreï Makine is an internationally best-selling author. He is the winner of the Goncourt Prize and the Medicis Prize, the two highest literary awards in France, for his novel Dreams of My Russian Summers, which was also a New York Times Notable Book and a Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year. Makine was born in Siberia in 1957 and raised in the Soviet Union. Granted asylum in France in 1987, Makine was personally given French citizenship by President Jacques Chirac. He now lives in Paris. Arcade Publishing has published ten of Makine’s acclaimed novels in English.

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