the earth and sky of jacques dorme a novel andreï makine translated from the french by geoffrey strachan now in paperback the touching finale publishers weekly to the epic trilogy that began with dreams of my russian summers by the man whose work has been compared to that of chekhov and proust andreï makine was born in russia in 1958 and emigrated to france in 1987 in 1995 his novel dreams of my russian summers won the goncourt prize and the médicis prize france s two most prestigious literary awards he divides his time between paris and a village in southwestern france a love story a brief encounter ...