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Gaston. Non-refundable. – Gautier Yves – Alpina Publisher – 2026 – ISBN 978-5-00223-689-3

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How can one remain oneself in an alien world, and how can one preserve one's otherness? And is it necessary to preserve it? Perhaps the book's hero, Parisian Gaston Thivet, didn't struggle with such philosophical questions in his evenings in his apartment in the small Soviet town of Shostka. But the narrative of his unusual and unfaithful fate makes us ponder them. Whether voluntarily and involuntarily, by choice and by force, Gaston remained in the USSR for many years. Gaston's fate could become a unique puzzle piece in an almost Shakespearean mosaic of life's collisions, entangled in such a widespread and controversial phenomenon of the 20th and now 21st centuries as repatriation.

Yves Gautier is a French writer and translator of Russian literature. He met Gaston Thivet in the USSR. Decades later, the writer compiled this book from letters, documents, and the voices of his family. The Russian text is the author's translation from French. Gautier writes like a man who has come to know Russia from the inside, with that rare mixture of tenderness, irony and precision that comes when a foreign land becomes close.
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