A Life's Music: 'Moving, haunting . . . a mini-masterpiece' - William Boyd, Guardian
Jun 2003 · Hachette UK
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'A mini-masterpiece'
Guardian
FEATURING A NEW INTRODUCTION BY WILLIAM BOYD
'Remarkable'
Daily Telegraph
Guardian
FEATURING A NEW INTRODUCTION BY WILLIAM BOYD
'Remarkable'
Daily Telegraph
'Unforgettable'
Mail on Sunday
'Prodigious'
Spectator
'Perfect'
Daily Mail
In a snowbound railway station deep in the Soviet Union, a stranded passenger encounters an old man playing the piano in the dark, silent tears rolling down his cheeks. Once on the train to Moscow, the man begins to tell his story: a tale of loss, love and survival, and the profound depths of human resilience.
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'A very short novel that contains multitudes . . . profound, moving, haunting - full of resonances that are even more valid in today's fraught times'
William Boyd, Guardian
'A masterpiece, a novella to be read in a lunch hour and remembered for ever'
Jilly Cooper, Sunday Telegraph
'A mini-masterpiece'
Guardian
FEATURING A NEW INTRODUCTION BY WILLIAM BOYD
'Remarkable'
Daily Telegraph
'Unforgettable'
Mail on Sunday
'Prodigious'
Spectator
'Perfect'
Daily Mail
In a snowbound railway station deep in the Soviet Union, a stranded passenger encounters an old man playing the piano...
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Born in Krasnoyarsk in Siberia in 1957, Andreï Makine has lived in France since seeking asylum there in 1987. DAUGHTER OF A SOVIET HERO, his first novel, was originally published in French in 1990 and was followed by CONFESSIONS OF A LAPSED STANDARD BEARER and ONCE UPON THE RIVER LOVE. Then in 1995 his fourth novel, LE TESTAMENT FRANCAIS, became the unprecedented winner of both the Prix Goncourt and Prix Médicis and has gone on to sell over a million copies in France alone, and to be published in translation in twenty-nine countries. Its translation into English by Geoffrey Strachan, published by Sceptre in 1997, also won the Scott Moncrieff Prize. Since then Andreï Makine has published THE CRIME OF OLGA ARBYELINA, REQUIEM FOR THE EAST and A LIFE'S MUSIC, published in France in 2001 where it won the Grand Prix RTL-Lire.
Born in Krasnoyarsk in Siberia in 1957, Andreï Makine has lived in France since seeking asylum there in 1987. DAUGHTER OF A SOVIET HERO, his first novel, was originally published in French in 1990 and was followed by CONFESSIONS OF A LAPSED STANDARD BEARER and ONCE UPON THE RIVER LOVE. Then in 19...
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