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This wonderful book is defined in what is known as the Soviet amount of stagnation - the 1970s, or later Brezhnev period. The university-educated narrator wistfully looks back on the few months in mid-decade when he kept his cynical and jaded friends in Leningrad to travel to a tiny provincial town near to the White Sea. Ostensibly writing about provincial folk customs, but also hoping to gather materials for an anti-Soviet satire, he instead fulfills Vera, a female much older than he who may have waited 30 years on her behalf lover to come back from World Warfare II. Makine, whose previous novels include Dreams of My Russian Summers (1997), presents an elegantly enigmatic story that explores a number of themes that may seem just a little outdated to some listeners but which meld seamlessly with the novel's mise-en-scene, including devotion, work, and the contradiction between notion and fact. The last mentioned is influenced home by the complicated romantic relationship between your narrator and Vera, and the simple moment when he all but morphs into her long-lost fan.
