The Woman Who Waited
A Russia, Contemporary, Russian Literature book. This was written beautifully but had an ugly story. How uncomfortable to...
A moving, utterly captivating love story: Romeo and Juliet as if told by Chekhov or Dostoevsky. In the remote Russian village of Mirnoje a woman waits, as she has waited for almost three decades, for the man she loves to return. Near the end of World War II, 19-year-old Boris Koptek leaves the village to join the Russian army, swearing to the 16-year-old love of his life, Vera, that as...
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A lovely little novel in which our narrator constantly ties himself in knots trying to understand a woman (Vera) he meets in a small town in the remote north of the Soviet Union. An 'intellectual' and 'artist' - albeit with enough self-awareness to know his own absurdity - his observation turns into an obsession to know the unknowable.Makine... A young 16 year girl waits for her boyfriend who left with the last batch of Russian recruits off to fight Germany in WWII. 30 years later she still is waiting for his return.A young writer enters her village and as hard as he can he cannot seem to define her.As usual in Makine books there is richness in the language and much use of... This was written beautifully but had an ugly story. How uncomfortable to look down on, laugh at, the absolutist narrator, who kept trying and failing to know the world around him, especially the woman in the title, and then *bam* realize how like him I am. I kept thinking: what an awful person, placing others into his own (always wrong)...
