Life's Music

'Moving, haunting . . . a mini-masterpiece' - William Boyd, Guardian

Häftad, Engelska, 2003

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'A mini-masterpiece'William Boyd, Guardian'Remarkable'Daily Telegraph'Unforgettable'Mail on Sunday'Prodigious'Spectator'Perfect'Daily MailIn a snowbound railway station deep in the Soviet Union, a stranded passenger comes across an old man playing the piano in the dark, silent tears rolling down his cheeks. Once on the train to Moscow he begins to tell his story: a tale of loss, love and survival that movingly illustrates the strength of human resilience.'A very short novel that contains multitudes . . . profound, moving, haunting - full of resonances that are even more valid in today's fraught times'William Boyd, Guardian'A masterpiece, a novella to be read in a lunch hour and remembered for ever'Jilly Cooper, Sunday Telegraph

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2003-06-09
Mått149 x 202 x 8 mm
Vikt88 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor112
FörlagHodder & Stoughton
ISBN9780340820094
ÖversättareStrachan, Geoffrey

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Born in Krasnoyarsk in Siberia in 1957, Andreï Makine has lived in France since seeking asylum there in 1987. DAUGHTER OF A SOVIET HERO, his first novel, was originally published in French in 1990 and was followed by CONFESSIONS OF A LAPSED STANDARD BEARER and ONCE UPON THE RIVER LOVE. Then in 1995 his fourth novel, LE TESTAMENT FRANCAIS, became the unprecedented winner of both the Prix Goncourt and Prix Médicis and has gone on to sell over a million copies in France alone, and to be published in translation in twenty-nine countries. Its translation into English by Geoffrey Strachan, published by Sceptre in 1997, also won the Scott Moncrieff Prize. Since then Andreï Makine has published THE CRIME OF OLGA ARBYELINA, REQUIEM FOR THE EAST and A LIFE'S MUSIC, published in France in 2001 where it won the Grand Prix RTL-Lire.

A very short novel that contains multitudes. A young Russian composer flees Moscow, heading for Ukraine, desperate to escape Stalin's purge of intellectuals in 1941. Then Russia's war with Nazi Germany begins and his life turns upside down. How will he survive? What means and reserves of character does he have at his disposal? Profound, moving, haunting - full of resonances that are even more valid in today's fraught times. A mini-masterpiece.