Music of a Life
2001 novella by Andreï Makine
9782020483438 Music of a Life (French: La Musique d'une vie) is a 2001 novella by the French writer Andreï Makine. A tale of Soviet oppression, it tells the story of a talented Russian piano player who has to abandon his career right before his first concert, flees to the countryside and adopts the identity of a dead soldier.
Reception
Publishers Weekly wrote: "It's a simple story, but Makine's lovely lyric writing—excellently translated—in which the scenes are imagined with a sharply cinematic focus, gives it considerable depth and emotion; the quiet ending, back in the present time, is wrenching."[1]
The book was awarded the Grand prix RTL-Lire.[2]
References
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- Dreams of My Russian Summers (1995)
- Requiem for a Lost Empire (2000)
- Music of a Life (2001)
- The Woman Who Waited (2004)
- The Archipelago of Another Life (2016)
- My Armenian Friend (2021)
