What is the author's style in Dreams of My Russian Summers by Andrei Makine?

This novel is told with first-person limited omniscience narration from the point of view of an unnamed, teenage male narrator who gradually comes of age into manhood throughout the novel. This first person point-of-view is integral to the novel since the entire text surrounds this narrator's struggle to form his own self-identity, questioning whether he is mostly French or mostly Russian.