Book review: As the Women Lay Dreaming, by Donald S Murray
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Years ago the first novel of Andreï Makine’s which I reviewed here was Confessions of a Lapsed Standard-Bearer. Its evocation of the Soviet Union in the late 1950s rang with such compelling authenticity that I was sure it must be autobiographical, drawn from memory. Then I looked at the author’s note in the inside back cover and saw that Makine was born in 1959.