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Interesting that makine, russian by birth, writes russian books, lives in france, writes in french, and we get the stories in translation. This edition was published in 1998 by scribner paperback fiction in new york. A brief but extraordinarily powerful novel by the author of dreams of my russian summers and requiem for a lost empire, music of a life is set in the period just before, and two decades after, world war ii. A deeply moving meditation on memory, history, love, and art by the author of dreams of my russian summersin the life of an unknown man, andrei makine explores what truly matters in life through the prism of russias past and present.
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