Music of a Life

A Novel

Fiction & Literature, Literary
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Author: Andreï Makine ISBN: 9781628722109
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Publication: October 28, 2011
Imprint: Arcade Publishing Language: English
Author: Andreï Makine
ISBN: 9781628722109
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
Publication: October 28, 2011
Imprint: Arcade Publishing
Language: English

A musician navigates the politics and passions of World War II Russia—and beyond—in this acclaimed novel from the author of Dreams of My Russian Summers.
 
May 24, 1941: Alexeï Berg, a classical pianist, is set to perform his first solo concert in Moscow. But just before his début, his parents—his father a renowned playwright, and his mother a famed opera singer—are exposed for their political indiscretions and held under arrest. With World War II on the brink, and fearing his own entrapment is not far behind, Alexeï flees to the countryside, assumes the identity of a Soviet soldier, and falls dangerously in love with a general officer’s daughter. What follows is a two-decades–long journey through war and peace, love and betrayal, art and artifice—a rare ensemble in the making of the music of a life.
 
“[C]oncise, fable-like, light-textured yet morally serious in the highest degree . . . [R]ead it with delight and astonishment.” —The Wall Street Journal
 
“[A] tour de force . . . about partings, death, love, solitude, art, identity . . . [that] leaves the reader with the feeling of having gone through an epic.” —The Denver Post

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A musician navigates the politics and passions of World War II Russia—and beyond—in this acclaimed novel from the author of Dreams of My Russian Summers.
 
May 24, 1941: Alexeï Berg, a classical pianist, is set to perform his first solo concert in Moscow. But just before his début, his parents—his father a renowned playwright, and his mother a famed opera singer—are exposed for their political indiscretions and held under arrest. With World War II on the brink, and fearing his own entrapment is not far behind, Alexeï flees to the countryside, assumes the identity of a Soviet soldier, and falls dangerously in love with a general officer’s daughter. What follows is a two-decades–long journey through war and peace, love and betrayal, art and artifice—a rare ensemble in the making of the music of a life.
 
“[C]oncise, fable-like, light-textured yet morally serious in the highest degree . . . [R]ead it with delight and astonishment.” —The Wall Street Journal
 
“[A] tour de force . . . about partings, death, love, solitude, art, identity . . . [that] leaves the reader with the feeling of having gone through an epic.” —The Denver Post

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