'Thrilling...Makine's most beautiful novel since Le Testament Francais' -- Le Figaro Praise for HUMAN LOVE -- . 'A powerful meditation on the price of ideology and the nature of love ... The novel, remorseless in its depiction of man's inhumanity, is poetically alive to the redeeming power of love.' -- Eithne Farry, Daily Mail 20080530 'A beautiful, haunting fugue ... [Makine's] reputation as one of the significant novelists of our age is only strengthened by this book.' -- Stephanie Merritt, Observer 20080621 'Andrei Makine has exceptional gifts for getting to the heart of true feeling' -- Christopher Hope, Guardian 20080621 'All his books are wonderful ... If you ever despair of modern literature, read Makine.' -- Allan Massie, Scotsman 20080621

Andrei Makine was born in Krasnoyarsk in Siberia in 1957, but has lived in France since 1987. With his fourth novel, LE TESTAMENT FRANCAIS, he became the first author to win both of France's top literary prizes, the Prix Goncourt and Prix Medicis. It has gone on to sell over a million copies and be translated into 28 languages. Since then Andrei Makine has written five novels, including A LIFE'S MUSIC, which won the Grand Prix RTL-Lire.