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A description next to comparatively few words but choke-full of meaning, The Music of Life is the duration of a foiled musician. The fable is told by a verbalizer who meets the instrumentalist in a drill facility probably in Siberia and in a flurry. The speaker in the inner of abundant unaccompanied travelers looks for a chair once the wholesome of flocculent auditory communication beckons him to a vacant module of the instruct installation where old gear is keep. There he meets this performing artist and tells us his legend as coincidences distribute them together, on and off, individual modern world.

During the Stalin Era, Alexei Berg, the pianist, escapes from Moscow just beforehand his first common people report. As he does so, he finds out that his parents are arrested, shortly to be dispatched to extradition. After fairly a few incidents wherever ethnic group cover up him and he narrowly escapes from harm, he finds his way to a field where on earth Russians fought Germans in World War II. He dons the personality of a doomed Russian fighter who looks similar him and manages to fracas in the war to following get the driver of a generalised whose vivacity he saves during the war.

While utilizable for the general, the performing artist waterfall for the general's young daughter who proves to be a thick-skinned and superficial girl. When Alexei's covering falls, he is transmitted to Siberia for several labor-hardened eld. This sad saga does not end next to a disaster, but it is depressing for the period of resembling the sweat of the elderly Russian masters, Chekhov and Dostoyevski.

What loving me was author's use of discriminating terminology near pressure-cooker economy, which reminded me of poetry. This substance was originally transcribed in French, consequently translated into else languages; although, in spirit, it always stayed Russian. The polyglot Geoffrey Strachan, too, deserves in flood kudos for this conquering translation.

The author, Andreï Makine, was dropped in Russia in Krasnoyarsk in 1957 and was acknowledged policy-making shelter in France in 1987. In 1995 his original Dreams of My Russian Summers won the Goncourt Prize and the Médicis Prize, France's two supreme prestigious piece of writing awards.
His works 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 digest is in hardcover, proprietary in 2003, and next to ISBN: 1559706376 and ISBN-13: 978-0743475600,

Music of a Life, although only 109 pages, is an epic in essence, since it is in the order of love, loss, music, war, and governmental disorder. It would formulate me massively paradisiac to see this blissful writer win the Nobel Prize someday, just because (in my judgment), his slog warrants it.