The Crime of Olga Arbyelina - Andrei Makine
In this saga of suffering, an ex-princess and her hemophiliac son live among other Russian émigrés in rural France after WWII. She ekes out a living working in a library, enduring memories of exploitation by every man she has ever encountered. The plot and incident are simple, the language amazingly poetic. The high points are the descriptions of nature and the change of seasons. The low points – this is, after all, a Russian novel – are tragic.
Not for the faint of heart, trust me.
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