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Ranging from the time of the czar to the fall of Communism, this multigenerational saga follows the lives and fortunes of one Russian family over the course of eighty turbulent years, from the involvement of Nicholas, the protagonist's grandfather, in the 1920s to the recruitment of Pavel, his grandson, by the KGB. By the author of Dreams of My Russian Summer.

"Not Makine's best; still, a worthy lyrical addition to his Proustian tapestry depicting a vanished country's deeply conflicted past and present."

Kirkus, 07/01/2001

"If anyone could pull off this unlikely project, it would be Makine. But his commitment to lyrical particularity operates at cross-purposes with his striving for great breadth....The novel's final section teeters at times on the brink of parody....Yet the haunting lyricism of the novel's last pages reminds us of what Makine can do at his best. REQUIEM...reads like a transitional work in the career of a talented writer who is not content merely to repeat his initial successes but has not yet found a new form that would do justice to his remarkable gifts."

Clare Cavanagh, New York Times Book Review, 10/07/2001

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