The death of his mother, Hélène Carrère d'Encausse -- major figure of French intellectual life and expert on the Soviet world -- opens the narrative toward the family's past across four generations, tracing exiles, revolutions, wars, and remarkable contradictions. Carrère creates something rare: a kind of narrative refuge that readers inhabit and are reluctant to leave. Each encounter between archives, genealogy, memory, and storytelling forms a bridge between what we know and what we begin to sense, offering longtime readers a celebration of meaning that sheds new light on all his work.
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