Andrei Makine has 4 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 2 narrators, with an average listener rating of 3.5★ across 2 ratings. The most-rated is L'archipel d'une autre vie.
L'archipel d'une autre vie
Summary
Aux confins de l'Extrême-Orient russe, dans le souffle du Pacifique, s'étendent des terres qui paraissent échapper à l'Histoire... Qui est donc ce criminel aux multiples visages, que Pavel Gartsev et ses compagnons doivent capturer à travers l'immensité de la taïga ? C'est l'aventure de cette longue chasse à l'homme qui nous est contée dans ce puissant roman d'exploration. C'est aussi un dialogue hors du commun, presque hors du monde, entre le soldat épuisé et la proie mystérieuse qu'il poursuit. Lorsque Pavel connaîtra la véritable identité du fugitif, sa vie en sera bouleversée. La chasse prend une dimension exaltante, tandis qu'à l'horizon émerge l'archipel des Chantars : là où une "autre vie" devient possible, dans la fragile éternité de l'amour.
©2016 Éditions du Seuil (P)2017 Sixtrid SAS
Human Love
Summary
Love for another person. Love for humanity as a whole. Are the two compatible or mutually exclusive? In Andrei Makine's most daring and ambitious novel since Dreams of My Russian Summers, in the midst of an insane African war somwehtere along the border between Angola and Zaire, two young people--Elias Almeida, a black revolutionary, and Anna, a Russian student--will struggle to stay together while forces beyond them work to tear them apart.
©2004, 2012 Editions du Seuil. English-language translation copyright 2008 by Geoffrey Strachan (P)2013 Audible, Inc.
Music of a Life
Summary
May 24, 1941: Alexeï Berg, a classical pianist, is set to perform his first solo concert in Moscow. But just before his début, his parents - his father a renowned playwright, and his mother a famed opera singer - are exposed for their political indiscretions and held under arrest. With World War II on the brink, and fearing that his own entrapment is not far behind, Alexeï flees to the countryside, assumes the identity of a Soviet soldier, and falls dangerously in love with a general officer's daughter. What follows is a two-decades-long journey through war and peace, love and betrayal, art and artifice - a rare ensemble in the making of the music of a life.
©2001 Andreï Makine, English-language translation Copyright 2002 by Geoffrey Strachan (P)2012 Audible, Inc.
The Woman Who Waited
Summary
This wonderful novel is set in what is known as the Soviet period of stagnation - the 1970s, or late Brezhnev era. The university-educated narrator wistfully looks back on a few months in mid-decade when he left his cynical and jaded friends in Leningrad to travel to a small provincial town near the White Sea. Ostensibly writing about provincial folk customs, but also hoping to gather material for an anti-Soviet satire, he instead meets Vera, a woman much older than he who has waited 30 years for her lover to return from World War II. Makine, whose previous novels include Dreams of My Russian Summers (1997), presents an elegantly enigmatic tale that explores a number of themes that may seem a little outdated to some listeners but which meld seamlessly with the novel's mise-en-scene, including devotion, duty, and the contradiction between perception and truth. The latter is driven home by the complicated relationship between the narrator and Vera, and the brief moment when he all but morphs into her long-lost lover.
©2004 Editions du Seuil, English-language translation copyright © 2006 Geoffrey Strachan (P)2012 Audible, Inc.