The Woman Who Waited
Andreï Makine
192 pages, Hardcover
ISBN: 0340837365
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Language: English
Publish: January 1, 2006
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When a young writer arrives in a remote Russian village to study local customs, one woman stands out: Vera, who has been waiting thirty years for her lover to return from the Second World War. He sets out to win her affections, but the better he thinks he understands her the more she surprises him.