The Woman Who Waited

The Woman Who Waited (French: La femme qui attendait) is a 2004 novel by the French writer Andreï Makine. It is set in the 1970s and tells the story of a 26-year-old man who falls in love with a woman who still is faithful to her fiancé who went missing in World War II.

The Woman Who Waited
AuthorAndreï Makine
Original titleLa femme qui attendait
TranslatorGeoffrey Strachan
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench
PublisherÉditions du Seuil
Publication date
1 January 2004
Published in English
1 March 2006
Pages216
ISBN9782020637435

Reception

Elena Seymenliyska of The Guardian called the novel "achingly beautiful" and described it as "rich in symbolism and swathed in enigmatic lyricism".[1] The New York Times' Andrey Slivka called it "an entertaining story about love, the onset of maturity, the moral complications of cultural dissidence and Soviet life as it was lived in a northern corner of the empire", and wrote that it "manages to treat its themes in a beautifully readable manner".[2] Publishers Weekly wrote that Makine "transforms a very simple premise into a richly textured story of love and loss".[3]

The book received the 2005 Prince Pierre Literary Prize.[4]

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References
  1. Seymenliyska, Elena (2006-04-29). "A place of melancholy mists". The Guardian. Retrieved 2018-03-04.
  2. Slivka, Andrey (2006-03-19). "The Waiting Game". The New York Times. Retrieved 2018-03-04.
  3. "Fiction Book Review: The Woman Who Waited by Andrei Makine". Publishers Weekly. 2006-01-16. Retrieved 2018-03-04.
  4. "The Prince Pierre Literary Prize: Winner 2005". Prince Pierre Foundation. Retrieved 2018-03-04.
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