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Alexei Berg's father is a well-known dramatist and his mother an opera singer, but in late 1930s Russia both parents suffer constant suspicion and harrassment under Stalin's reign of terror. So great is Alexei's musical talent that he is allowed to continue his studies, but two days before his first concert in May 1941, he arrives home to find his parents being arrested. He flees, abandoning his budding career as a concert pianist, and assumes the identity of a dead Russian conscript to fight against the advancing Germans. When the war is over he stays on as a general's driver, continuing to keep his real identity hidden until a moment of folly reveals the truth and earns him 10 years in a prison camp. But despite a life of misfortune, Alexei remains unbroken, and in a snowbound railway station in the middle of the Urals, he tells his story.

 
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October 2002 : Hardback
Cover of ISBN: 034082008XTitle: A Life's Music
Author(s): Andrei Makine
ISBN: 0-340-82008-X / 978-0-340-82008-7 (UK edition)
Publisher: Sceptre
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August 2002 : Hardback
Cover of ISBN: 1559706376Title: The Music of a Life: A Novel
Author(s): Andrei Makine
ISBN: 1-55970-637-6 / 9781559706377 (USA edition)
Publisher: Arcade Publishing
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February 2004 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 0743475607Title: Music of a Life: A Novel
Author(s): Andrei Makine
ISBN: 0-7434-7560-7 / 978-0-7434-7560-0 (USA edition)
Publisher: Washington Square Press
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June 2003 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 0340820098Title: A Life's Music
Author(s): Andreï Makine
ISBN: 0-340-82009-8 / 978-0-340-82009-4 (UK edition)
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2002 : Paperback
Title: A LIFE'S MUSIC
Author(s): Andrei Makine
Publisher: Sceptre
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June 2003 : Kindle edition
Cover of ISBN: B004JHY9HATitle: A Life's Music
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