{"product_id":"kolkhoz-9781911717669","title":"Kolkhoz","description":"\u003cp\u003eA landmark work of memoir by one of France’s most important writers\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten in the aftermath of his mother’s death, Hélène Carrère d’Encausse, a leading authority on Soviet and Russian history, Kolkhoz is a multi-layered personal history of France, Ukraine and Russia through four generations of Emmanuel Carrère’s family, mapping personal and familial anecdotes against a wider historical, cultural and political backdrop.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten in his renowned, distilled and captivating prose, Carrère seamlessly moves from the biographical to the historical – the public to the private – to piece together both a fascinating, multigenerational family history and a vivid portrait of a tumultuous period of European and Russian history, right through to the war in Ukraine, the Covid pandemic and his mother’s death in 2023.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKolkhoz is a landmark work of memoir by one of France’s most important writers. Expansive and grossing, it is perhaps Carrère’s most personal and ambitious work to date – a love letter to the family who raised and shaped him, and his ode to the persistence of the human spirit.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Emmanuel Carrere\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eMemoirs\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 3 Sep 2026 by Vintage Publishing.\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHardback\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Emmanuel Carrere","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57320596930938,"sku":"9781911717669","price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0373\/4125\/files\/9781911717669.jpg?v=1790658767","url":"https:\/\/belfastbooks.co.uk\/products\/kolkhoz-9781911717669","provider":"Belfast Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}