The first novel to win both the Prix Goncourt and Prix Médicis
An extraordinary story of love and endurance during the Siege of Leningrad lies at the heart of a magnificent novel about Russia past and present, and the human condition.
Did sex bring down the Iron Curtain? An orphan reflects on the unbreakable bond between love and freedom in the Soviet Union...
'Ravishing' (The Times): a compelling, brilliant novel from a master of European literature, a bestseller in France.
A magnificent story of courage and survival in the face of great adversity
A tense "Siberian Western" set in the inhospitable, boundless Russia taiga at the height of the Cold War
Set in Siberia in the 1970s during the decline of the Soviet Empire, My Armenian Friend is a story about how one friendship can shift our perspective and irrevocably change our lives.