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The Archipelago of Another Life

By: Andreï Makine, Geoffrey Strachan
Narrated by: Philip Stevens, Sam Dastor
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Summary

On the far eastern borders of the Soviet Union, in the sunset of Stalin's reign, soldiers are training for a war that could end all wars, for in the atomic age man has sown the seeds of his own destruction.

Among them is Pavel Gartsev, a reservist. Orphaned, scarred by the last great war and unlucky in love, he is an instant victim for the apparatchiks and ambitious careerists who thrive within the Red Army's ranks.

Assigned to a search party composed of regulars and reservists, charged with the recapture of an escaped prisoner from a nearby gulag, Gartsev finds himself one of an unlikely quintet of cynics, sadists and heroes, embarked on a challenging manhunt through the Siberian taiga.

But the fugitive, capable, cunning and evidently at home in the depths of these vast forests, proves no easy prey. As the pursuit goes on, and the pursuers are struck by a shattering discovery, Gartsev confronts both the worst within himself and the tantalising prospect of another, totally different life.

Translated from the French by Geoffrey Strachan
©2016 Editions Du Seuil * (P)2016 Quercus Editions Limited
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Not what I was expecting

Reading the blurb for this book I thought it might be an enjoyable but run of the mill adventure story. It is so much more. A meditation on life and freedom and what it is to live sounds boringly wanky but it’s a cracking read.

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