A Life's Music (Paperback, New Ed)

This is a beautiful and poignant novella, just over 100 pages in length, in which we hear the story of a man's life as told in a Moscow train compartment to a fellow passenger who discovered him playing the piano in the dark of a snowbound railway station. A budding concert pianist, he lost parents and future career through Stalin's purges. Abandoning his music, he steals a new identity and joins the fight against the Germans in the Second World War. He survives this bleak existence only to endure a humiliating reminder of what might have been, and an infatuation seals his ultimate fate. The scale of events and depth of emotional turmoil are in no way diminished by the size of this book. Although sparingly written, the tragedy of a destroyed life is magnified. It is also lit with tremendous hope: the old man is not embittered by what has been stolen from him and this has the effect of making the reader suffer on his behalf. The prejudice against intelligentsia, the horrors of war, the compassion of ordinary people, the cruelty of the privileged - you will be touched by it all. This is a book to keep and treasure. (Kirkus UK)

In a snowbound railway station deep in the Soviet Union, a stranded passenger comes across an old man playing the piano in the dark, silent tears rolling down his cheeks. Once on the train to Moscow he begins to tell his story: a tale of loss, love and survival that movingly illustrates the strength of human resilience. 'A novella to be read in a lunch hour and remembered for ever' Jilly Cooper, Books of the Year, Sunday Telegraph

General

Imprint:	Sceptre
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	June 2003
Translators:	Geoffrey Strachan
Authors:	Andre i Makine
Dimensions:	196 x 129 x 6mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	106
Edition:	New Ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-340-82009-4
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > Sagas
LSN:	0-340-82009-8
Barcode:	9780340820094

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