Sadness permeates a novel about a Siberian exile’s return to St Petersburg.
Siberian novelist Andrei Makine has become one of the wonders of modern Europe. After seeking asylum in France in 1987, he began to write fiction in French, and within an eye-wateringly short time established himself as one of the West’s finest writers.
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