Music of a Life

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.

Music of a Life
First English edition
AuthorAndreï Makine
Original titleLa Musique d'une vie
TranslatorGeoffrey Strachan
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench
PublisherÉditions du Seuil (France)
Arcade Books (UK)
Publication date
2001
Pages132
ISBN9782020483438

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]

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