Three hundred thousand copies sold, 26 editions abroad, notably in the United States, Great Britain, Italy, Germany, Japan, but not in Russia.
Nearly twenty reprints since its publication in April.
First sale in general literature - slightly ahead of the Goncourt prize awarded to Brigitte Giraud -, according to the latest GFK figures.
No doubt.
The Mage of the Kremlin
, this great novel of contemporary Russia, which deciphers the workings of the Putin era, the rocking of this country between its glorious past, its Russian identity and European culture, is the editorial phenomenon of the year.
And this first novel by Giuliano da Empoli, who received the grand prize of the novel from the French Academy on October 27 and arrived finalist of Goncourt, is a UFO.
As well as its author, Italian-Swiss, who observes with a disconcerting calm and an amused and distanced look the passions which can be unleashed in the republic of French letters.
It is true that rarely...
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