The archipelago of another life / Andreï Makine ; translated from the French by Geoffrey Strachan.

• "A tense "Siberian Western" set in the inhospitable, boundless Russia taiga at the height of the Cold War. 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."--Publisher. 

Ämnesord

French fiction  -- Translations into English. (LCSH)

Soldiers  -- Soviet Union -- Fiction. (LCSH)

Escaped prisoners  -- Soviet Union -- Fiction. (LCSH)

Soldiers.  (fast)

French fiction.  (fast)

Escaped prisoners.  (fast)

Soviet Union  -- History -- 1925-1953 -- Fiction. (LCSH)

Siberia (Russia)  -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction. (LCSH)

Soviet Union.  (fast)

Russia (Federation)  -- Siberia. (fast)

1900-1999  (fast)

Genre

Translations.  (fast)

History.  (fast)

Historical fiction.  (fast)

Action and adventure fiction.  (fast)

Fiction.  (fast)

Action and adventure fiction.  (lcgft)

Historical fiction.  (lcgft)

Russian fiction. 

French fiction. 

Klassifikation

PQ2673.A38416 (LCC)

843/.92 (DDC)