# The Earth and Sky of Jacques Dorme

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- Authors: [Andrei Makine](https://www.bookquiver.com/andrei-makine)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2006-01-02

## Description

In present-day France a Russian writer recalls his harsh childhood at a Stalingrad orphanage in the 1960s and the old Frenchwoman, a family friend, whose tales fed his dreams of a better world. One story in particular has stayed with him: that of her brief, passionate affair, during World War II, with the French fighter pilot Jacques Dorme, who subsequently died in a plane crash in the Siberian mountains. So the narrator decides to retrace Jacques Dorme's steps, beginning a journey which leads him not only to revisit the land of his birth but also to see his adopted homeland in an unflattering new light. A profound and moving novel about the dangers of ideology and of war, delivered with humour, sensuousness and great lyricism.

## Editions

### The Earth and Sky of Jacques Dorme

- Publisher: sceptre
- ISBN: 978-03-4083-126-7
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2006-01-02
- Language: en_GB