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COPYRIGHT 2008 The Spectator Ltd. (UK)
HUMAN LOVE
by Andrei Makine
Sceptre, 12.99 [pounds sterling], pp. 249, ISBN 9780340936771
10.39 [pounds sterling] (plus 2.45 [pounds sterling] p&p) 0870 429 6655
In Andrei Makine's previous novel, The Woman Who Waited (2006), which is set in 1970s USSR, the unnamed narrator sees through his peers' weak ideologies; he knows that their anti-establishment stance is merely a neat justification for a life of indolence. In Human Love, Elias Almeida, a communist revolutionary, sees that many of his well-to-do comrades use their political activism as a means of...
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