L’archipel d’une autre vie

At the far edge of the Russian Far East, swept by the breath of the Pacific, lie lands that seem to escape History. Who is the many-faced criminal that Pavel Gartsev and his companions must capture across the immensity of the taiga? This powerful novel tells the story of that long manhunt, and of the extraordinary, almost otherworldly dialogue between the exhausted soldier and his mysterious quarry. When Pavel learns the fugitive’s true identity, his life is overturned, as the Shantar archipelago rises on the horizon: the place where “another life” becomes possible, in the fragile eternity of love.