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A narration next to comparatively few language but stuffed of meaning, The Music of Life is the go of a foiled musician. The narrative is told by a conversationalist who meets the performing artist in a discipline station belike in Siberia and in a snowfall. The teller in the axis of umteen isolated travelers looks for a seat once the undamaged of flaccid auditory communication beckons him to a uninhabited section of the drill facility where on earth old piece of furniture is hold on. There he meets this performer and tells us his chronicle as coincidences carry them together, on and off, various present.

During the Stalin Era, Alexei Berg, the pianist, escapes from Moscow rightful up to that time his front in the public eye reading. As he does so, he finds out that his parents are arrested, rapidly to be dispatched to banishment. After rather a few incidents where society skin 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 dead Russian soldier who looks approaching him and manages to battle in the war to following get the driver of a miscellaneous whose being he saves during the war.

While employed for the general, the instrumentalist waterfall for the general's girlish girl who proves to be a merciless and superficial miss. When Alexei's cloak falls, he is sent to Siberia for respective labor-hardened eld. This tragical message does not end near a disaster, but it is barren end-to-end resembling the career of the senior Russian masters, Chekhov and Dostoyevski.

What loving me was author's use of discriminating writing with exquisite economy, which reminded me of blank verse. This subject matter was originally typewritten in French, past translated into other languages; although, in spirit, it always stayed Russian. The transcriber Geoffrey Strachan, too, deserves illustrious commendation for this prospering written record.

The author, Andreï Makine, was given birth in Russia in Krasnoyarsk in 1957 and was given governmental refuge in France in 1987. In 1995 his original Dreams of My Russian Summers won the Goncourt Prize and the Médicis Prize, France's two most esteemed piece of 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 baby book is in hardcover, copyrighted in 2003, and with ISBN: 1559706376 and ISBN-13: 978-0743475600,

Music of a Life, although singular 109 pages, is an heroic in essence, since it is astir love, loss, music, war, and ambassadorial turbulence. It would net me markedly thrilled to see this ace writer win the Nobel Prize someday, lone because (in my persuasion), his drudgery warrants it.