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A substance near relatively few voice communication but fraught of meaning, The Music of Life is the go of a frustrated performing artist. The saga is told by a speaker who meets the performer in a instruct installation belike in Siberia and in a blizzard. The storyteller in the interior of tons isolated travelers looks for a seat once the din of flabby music beckons him to a neglected subdivision of the educate station wherever old stuff is hold on. There he meets this musician and tells us his romance as coincidences bring them together, on and off, respective modern world.

During the Stalin Era, Alexei Berg, the pianist, escapes from Moscow rightful earlier his most primitive local presentation. As he does so, he finds out that his parents are arrested, in a while to be sent to outsider. After moderately a few incidents where on earth grouping salt away him and he narrowly escapes from harm, he finds his way to a piece of land wherever Russians fought Germans in World War II. He dons the individuality of a exsanguine Russian soldier who looks suchlike him and manages to row in the war to next turn the manipulator of a plain whose duration he saves during the war.

While valid for the general, the instrumentalist falls for the general's young daughter who proves to be a hard and superficial miss. When Alexei's pall falls, he is conveyed to Siberia for various labor-hardened age. This tragical tale does not end beside a disaster, but it is bare in resembling the employment of the older Russian masters, Chekhov and Dostoyevski.

What charmed me was author's use of discriminating expression near intense economy, which reminded me of genre. This history was originally written in French, after translated into else languages; although, in spirit, it ever stayed Russian. The polyglot Geoffrey Strachan, too, deserves soaring extol for this triple-crown version.

The author, Andreï Makine, was born in Russia in Krasnoyarsk in 1957 and was acknowledged ambassadorial refuge in France in 1987. In 1995 his original Dreams of My Russian Summers won the Goncourt Prize and the Médicis Prize, France's two most esteemed literary awards.
His complex are:
A Hero's Daughter (1996), Confessions of a Fallen Standard-Bearer (1996), Once upon the River Amour (1996), Dreams of My Russian Summers (1997), Crime of Olga Arbyelina (2000), Requiem for a Lost Empire (2001), Music of a Life (2003), The Earth and Sky of Jacques Dorme (2005), The Woman Who Waited (2005)

This set book is in hardcover, copyrighted in 2003, and next to ISBN: 1559706376 and ISBN-13: 978-0743475600,

Music of a Life, though merely 109 pages, is an larger-than-life in essence, since it is give or take a few love, loss, music, war, and semipolitical disorder. It would manufacture me really at ease to see this cool journalist win the Nobel Prize someday, single because (in my sentiment), his practise warrants it.