{"product_id":"9781911717669","title":"Kolkhoz","description":"Author(s): Carrere, Emmanuel, \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Hardback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 03\/09\/2026,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 416 pages,\u003cbr\u003e Series: N\/A, \u003cbr\u003eImprint: Fern Press,\u003cbr\u003e Published By: Vintage Publishing,\u003cbr\u003e Book Classification: Memoirs,\u003cbr\u003e Dimensions: 241 x 164 x 39\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\/EAN\/SKU: 9781911717669\u003chr\u003e\u003cp\u003e'An epic achievement and an honest, heartfelt account' GUARDIANA personal history of war, obsession, love and truth by the Sunday Times-bestselling author of The AdversaryStanding among the mourners gathered to honour Hélène Carrère d’Encausse – renowned historian of Russia, member of the Académie Française, national figure – her son, Emmanuel Carrère, wonders who this formidable woman was: to the country, to history and to himself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Kolkhoz, Carrère turns his unflinching gaze on his own lineage, crafting his most intimate and ambitious book yet. Spanning four generations, a century of Russian and French history, and up to the war in Ukraine, he traces the destinies of a family scattered by revolution, ideology and pride. There are White Russian ancestors clinging to vanished grandeur; relatives lured back to Stalin’s USSR and swallowed by silence; a father obsessed with genealogy and lost nobility; and, at the centre, a mother whose brilliance, ambition and dominance shaped both French intellectual life and her son’s inner world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs Carrère sifts through letters, archives and contested memories, he confronts the stories families tell to survive and the lies they tell to protect one another and asks: how do political faith and historical catastrophe reverberate across generations? And can a son write about his mother with honesty without betraying her? At once sweeping and surgical, tender and unsparing, Kolkhoz is a family epic and a reckoning: a meditation on communism and its afterlives, on filial piety and rebellion, and on the uneasy border between truth and love.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWINNER OF THE PRIX MÉDICISPRAISE FOR EMMANUEL CARRÈRE'A superstar writer' Guardian'One of the best storytellers around' Evening Standard'The most exciting living writer' Karl Ove Knausgaard\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Carrere, Emmanuel","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56878682243458,"sku":"9781911717669","price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0568\/2180\/9347\/files\/9781911717669.jpg?v=1788017603","url":"https:\/\/mountfloridabooks.pro\/products\/9781911717669","provider":"Mount Florida Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}