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A tale near relatively few spoken language but weighed down of meaning, The Music of Life is the natural life of a disappointed instrumentalist. The chronicle is told by a conversationalist who meets the performing artist in a tank engine facility in all probability in Siberia and in a flurry. The storyteller in the core of masses stranded travelers looks for a stool once the uninjured of emollient auditory communication beckons him to a forsaken bit of the public transport station wherever old fixtures is keep. There he meets this player and tells us his content as coincidences bring down them together, on and off, individual nowadays.

During the Stalin Era, Alexei Berg, the pianist, escapes from Moscow of late before his prototypal unexclusive reading. As he does so, he finds out that his parents are arrested, shortly to be sent to pariah. After pretty a few incidents wherever individuals cast a shadow on him and he narrowly escapes from harm, he finds his way to a piece of land where Russians fought Germans in World War II. He dons the personality of a pulseless Russian combatant who looks look-alike him and manages to argue in the war to following get the manipulator of a as a whole whose life he saves during the war.

While working for the general, the player waterfall for the general's youthful female offspring who proves to be a callous and dismissive woman. When Alexei's curtain falls, he is sent to Siberia for various labor-hardened time of life. This sad story does not end near a disaster, but it is dour throughout resembling the effort of the elder Russian masters, Chekhov and Dostoyevski.

What loving me was author's use of selective verbal skill next to consuming economy, which reminded me of genre. This substance was primitively typed in French, next translated into remaining languages; although, in spirit, it always stayed Russian. The polyglot Geoffrey Strachan, too, deserves large acknowledgment for this delighted interlingual rendition.

The author, Andreï Makine, was whelped in Russia in Krasnoyarsk in 1957 and was acknowledged embassy sanctuary in France in 1987. In 1995 his new-fangled Dreams of My Russian Summers won the Goncourt Prize and the Médicis Prize, France's two best prestigious piece of writing awards.
His plant 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 baby book is in hardcover, proprietary in 2003, and next to ISBN: 1559706376 and ISBN-13: 978-0743475600,

Music of a Life, although single 109 pages, is an epic in essence, since it is around love, loss, music, war, and political upheaval. It would craft me deeply euphoric to see this terrific dramatist win the Nobel Prize someday, just because (in my inference), his tough grind warrants it.