The Archipelago of Another Life
The Archipelago of Another Life is a 2016 novel by the French-Russian writer Andreï Makine.
Plot
The novel is about a prisoner who escaped from a Gulag in Siberia at the end of the History of the [Soviet Union (1927–1953)|Stalin era]. The story is told by one of the members of the search party years later. His listener is a young man who encounters him at Tugur.Reception
of The Daily Telegraph wrote that the novel is reminiscent of the works of Joseph Conrad and a step away from Makine's usual minimalist and emotional style. He wrote that the last quarter of the novel is moving but that the language in the English translation occasionally is stiff and creates "emotional ponderousness".The English translation was shortlisted for the Scott Moncrieff Prize.