Kolkhoz (Tapa dura)

WINNER OF THE PRIX MÉDICIS A landmark work of memoir by one of Frances most important writersWritten in the aftermath of his mothers death, Hélène Carrère dEncausse, a leading authority on Soviet and Russian history, Kolkhoz is a multi-layered personal history of France, Ukraine and Russia through four generations of Emmanuel Carrères family, mapping personal and familial anecdotes against a wider historical, cultural and political backdrop.Written in his renowned, distilled and captivating prose, Carrère seamlessly moves from the biographical to the historical the public to the private to piece together both a fascinating, multigenerational family history and a vivid portrait of a tumultuous period of European and Russian history, right through to the war in Ukraine, the Covid pandemic and his mothers death in .Kolkhoz is a landmark work of memoir by one of Frances most important writers. Expansive and grossing, it is perhaps Carrères most personal and ambitious work to date a love letter to the family who raised and shaped him, and his ode to the persistence of the human spirit.