Confessions of a Fallen Standard-Bearer

With the exquisitely wrought and deeply felt prose that has won him an international following, critically acclaimed author Andreiuml; Makine's Confessions of a Fallen Standard-Bearer is the story of Arkady and Alyosha, two Young Soviet Pioneers who once marched to the clarion call of socialist ideals. Years after the two grow to adulthood and emigrate to the West, Aloysha-now a writer living in Paris-hears a chance rumor of Arkady and a flood of memory is unleashed. Makine follows the trajectory of the boys' initial ideological fervor to their gradual disillusionment with the Party's hypocrisies and hollow promises.Makine, Andreï is the author of 'Confessions of a Fallen Standard-Bearer', published 2001 under ISBN 9780142000014 and ISBN 0142000019.