Lit in Translation

Kolkhoz

Kolkhoze

Emmanuel Carrère (born 1957)

Translated by John Lambert

English editions

In English

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Soon after 1945 a well-off young man from Bordeaux weds a penniless stateless émigrée whose father was an impoverished Russian-German noble and whose mother was Georgian. She becomes a renowned Russia expert, close to the Kremlin and head of the Académie française. Using his father's family archives, their son traces the family from the revolution to the war in Ukraine.

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About the book

Form
Nonfiction
Length
558 pages in the original
Genres
Family, Historical, Politics (assigned by AI)
Set in
France, Russia
First published
2025 by P.O.L
Author's age
68 when first published
ISBN

9782818061985 (original)

9781911717669 (Fern Press, United Kingdom)

9780374621872 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, United States)