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Book reviews: A Hero's Daughter: Soviet Mata Hari's heart trouble
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A HERO'S DAUGHTER Andrei Makine Sceptre, GBP 16.99
SINCE winning France's two top literary prizes - the Goncourt and
Prix Medicis - in 1995, Russian-born novelist Andrei Makine has been
acclaimed as one of Europe's leading writers. A Hero's Daughter,
which tells the powerful story of a father and daughter in the years
from Stalingrad to Gorbachev, displays to the full both the strengths
and weaknesses of his creative talent.
War and its aftermath are recurring themes in Makin...
