Editions Checkpointed: 5 books

Structured around the poetry of Milosz and nocturnes of Chopin, "Polska, 1994" follows seventeen-year-old Magda's quest through her past. In a provincial town that feels desperately too small, this coming-of-age story revisits oppression and loss behind the grim Iron Curtain, and the many...

Une histoire d'amour et d'aventures, voici La Boule de Neige. Dans le Daghestan du XIXe siècle, ce livre nous fait suivre l'épopée d'Iskander tandis que celui-ci échoit d'une mission délicate afin de préserver d'un terrible sort la ville de Derbent. Se débattant contre brigands et dilemmes,...

Set in Dagestan in the middle of the Caucasian War, "The Ball of Snow" follows the story of Iskander as he is tasked with an impossible mission to achieve for the well-being of Derbent. Fighting with brigands and dilemmas, Iskander shows the complexity of an unbending Caucasus where tradition...

En pleine Guerre du Caucase qui voit l'expansion de l'Empire Russe annexer les khanats semi-autonomes, Alexandre Dumas sillonne la région avec humour de la Mer Caspienne aux côtes de la Mer Noire. Il se revèle être un portraitiste exceptionnel mais surtout un fin observateur...

Set in Dagestan in the middle of the Caucasian War, "The Ball of Snow" follows the story of Iskander as he is tasked with an impossible mission to achieve for the well-being of Derbent. Fighting with brigands and dilemmas, Iskander shows the complexity of an unbending Caucasus where tradition...