Music of a Life - Andreï Makine, Geoffrey Strachan (Translator) torrent

Category: Adults, Historical Fiction
Language: EnglishKeywords: Russia Russian Literature War
Written by Andreï Makine, Geoffrey Strachan (Translator)
Read by Gregory St. John
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged
As the narrator of this brief, dreamlike, and pointedly philosophical novel waits for a delayed train at a snowy station in the Russian countryside in 1941, he contemplates history, fatality, and the absurd. Andrei Makine, a Russian émigré to France in the 1980s and author of the much heralded Dreams of My Russian Summers, weaves sensory details and philosophical inquiry into one tight, elegiac whole. Performed in a pleasing and energetic American dialect by Gregory St. John, Music of a Life introduces the listener to a young pianist searching for a “tragic harmony” as his country descends into Soviet madness and dispiriting war. Like Voltaire’s Candide, Camus’s The Stranger, and other brief novels of philosophical weight, Music of a Life consoles even as it confounds.
Length: 2 hrs and 29 mins
Release date: 02-06-13
Written by Andreï Makine, Geoffrey Strachan (Translator) Read by Gregory St. John Format: M4B Bitrate: 64 Kbps Unabridged
As the narrator of this brief, dreamlike, and pointedly philosophical novel waits for a delayed train at a snowy station in the Russian countryside in 1941, he contemplates history, fatality, and the absurd. Andrei Makine, a Russian émigré to France in the 1980s and author of the much heralded Dreams of My Russian Summers, weaves sensory details and philosophical inquiry into one tight, elegiac whole. Performed in a pleasing and energetic American dialect by Gregory St. John, Music of a Life introduces the listener to a young pianist searching for a “tragic harmony” as his country descends into Soviet madness and dispiriting war. Like Voltaire’s Candide, Camus’s The Stranger, and other brief novels of philosophical weight, Music of a Life consoles even as it confounds.
Length: 2 hrs and 29 mins Release date: 02-06-13