Brisbane
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Brisbane
14.99 €
Yevgeny Vodolazkin is the winner of the "Big Book" and "Yasnaya Polyana" awards. In the novel "Brisbane" he continues the stories of heroes ("Lavr", "The Aviator"), whose fate - as in ancient tragedy - suddenly and immediately changes. Gleb Yanovsky - a virtuoso musician - at the peak of success loses the opportunity to perform due to illness and tries to find another meaning of life, a new point of support. In this he is helped by... the past - he tries to put together his memories of his childhood in Kiev in the seventies, his youth in Leningrad, his present in Germany and again in Kiev in the two thousand years. Only Brisbane is not among these life journeys. And is there really such a city? Or is it just a mirage, a dream, a utopian ideal, the music of the spheres?
- In your interviews you often mention the city of Brisbane, and Australia in general. Why?
- Because when we have winter, they have summer.
- And when we have summer?
- Then they have summer too. By our standards, it's summer. In our family, this place was considered paradise.
- The population is too peculiar for paradise. Descendants of convicts.
- And what?
- Paradise requires a good background.
- Have you been there?
- Where, Australia?
- No, paradise. How do you know what kind of background is required?
- In your interviews you often mention the city of Brisbane, and Australia in general. Why?
- Because when we have winter, they have summer.
- And when we have summer?
- Then they have summer too. By our standards, it's summer. In our family, this place was considered paradise.
- The population is too peculiar for paradise. Descendants of convicts.
- And what?
- Paradise requires a good background.
- Have you been there?
- Where, Australia?
- No, paradise. How do you know what kind of background is required?
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- All books in the series New Russian classics