Music Of A Life by Andreï Makine

A gifted pianist in Soviet Russia sees his brilliant future destroyed by the regime’s purges, forcing him to assume a new identity and renounce his art to survive. Years later, during a snowbound night at a remote train station, he recounts the love, loss, and betrayals that shaped his hidden life. Through his story, the enduring power of music emerges as both a refuge and a fragile thread connecting him to the self he was forced to abandon.

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