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A message beside comparatively few spoken language but full up of meaning, The Music of Life is the beingness of a thwarted instrumentalist. The sketch is told by a verbaliser who meets the player in a train installation probably in Siberia and in a storm. The raconteur in the core of some marooned travelers looks for a chair once the secure of like velvet auditory communication beckons him to a bleak piece of the railroad train installation where old piece of furniture is keep. There he meets this musician and tells us his content as coincidences send them together, on and off, several modern times.

During the Stalin Era, Alexei Berg, the pianist, escapes from Moscow right back his primary common people performance. As he does so, he finds out that his parents are arrested, soon to be conveyed to expatriate. After comparatively a few incidents wherever culture stow him and he narrowly escapes from harm, he finds his way to a field where Russians fought Germans in World War II. He dons the personal identity of a insensible Russian enlisted person who looks like-minded him and manages to barney in the war to later become the operator of a all-purpose whose existence he saves during the war.

While functional for the general, the performing artist falls for the general's young daughter who proves to be a pitiless and jokey young woman. When Alexei's shroud falls, he is sent to Siberia for respective labor-hardened age. This tragical parable does not end next to a disaster, but it is characterless all through resembling the activity of the elder Russian masters, Chekhov and Dostoyevski.

What loving me was author's use of discriminating expression beside strenuous economy, which reminded me of literary genre. This narrative was primitively shorthand in French, next translated into different languages; although, in spirit, it e'er stayed Russian. The transcriber Geoffrey Strachan, too, deserves high acclamation for this jubilant translation.

The author, Andreï Makine, was given birth in Russia in Krasnoyarsk in 1957 and was acknowledged embassy refuge in France in 1987. In 1995 his fresh Dreams of My Russian Summers won the Goncourt Prize and the Médicis Prize, France's two best prestigious writing 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 journal is in hardcover, proprietary in 2003, and beside ISBN: 1559706376 and ISBN-13: 978-0743475600,

Music of a Life, tho' individual 109 pages, is an epic in essence, since it is in the order of love, loss, music, war, and political turbulence. It would be paid me outstandingly festive to see this extraordinary correspondent win the Nobel Prize someday, single because (in my opinion), his toil warrants it.