ISBN An Evening with Claire book English Paperback 256 pages

The lyrical first novel of youth and love by acclaimed modernist master Gaito Gazdanov, author ofThe Spectre of Alexander Wolf

Two old friends meet nightly in Paris, trading conversational barbs and manoeuvring around submerged feelings. Throughout the ten years of their separation, thoughts of Claire lingered persistently in Kolya’s mind. As the imagined romance finally becomes real, Kolya is thrown into recollections of formative moments from his youth in Russia, from his solitary early years through military school and service in the White Army in the Civil War, all leading to this union with Claire.

The first novel by the celebrated Russian master Gaito Gazdanov,An Evening with Claireis a lyrical, finely crafted portrait of a lost innocence and a vanished era.

Gaito Gazdanov (Georgi Ivanovich Gazdanov, 1903-1971) was the son of a forester. Born in St Petersburg and brought up in Siberia and Ukraine, he joined Baron Wrangel’s White Army in 1919 aged just sixteen, and fought in the Russian Civil…