From the INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR Eugene Vodolazkin -
winner of the BIG BOOK AWARD, the LEO TOLSTOY YASNAYA POLYANA
AWARD, and the READ RUSSIA AWARD For fans of Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy,
and Umberto Eco Vodolazkin's new novel Brisbane is "a sophisticated
and frequently moving study in dissonance, dedicated to pointing
out contrasts between art and life, beauty and decay, intention and
outcome. And, yes, between Ukraine and Russia" (Booklist). Brisbane
is a richly layered, universal coming-of-age story of a musical
prodigy robbed of his talent by an incurable disease who attempts
to overcome his mortality. After Gleb Yanovsky, a celebrated
guitarist, is diagnosed with Parkinson's disease at age fifty, he
permits a writer, Sergei Nesterov, to pen his biography. For years,
they meet regularly as Gleb recounts the life he's lived thus far:
a difficult childhood in Kyiv, his formative musical studies in St.
Petersburg, and his later years in Munich, where he lives with his
wife and meets a thirteen-year-old virtuoso whom he embraces as his
own daughter. In a mischievous and tender account, Gleb recalls a
personal story of a lifetime quest for meaning, and how the burden
of success changes with age. Expanding the literary universe spun
in his earlier novels, Vodolazkin explores music and fame, heritage
and belonging, time and memory in this beautifully-wrought and
relevant tale that carefully unravel into a puzzle: Whose story is
it - the subject's or the writer's? Are art and love really no
match for death? Is memory a reliable narrator? In Brisbane, the
city of our dreams, as in music, Gleb hopes he's found a path to
eternity - and a way to stop the clock.
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