A novel by Evgeny Vodolazkin, author of the bestsellers "Laurus" and "Aviator." The novel "Brisbane" is a winner of the "Book of the Year" award in the "Prose of the Year" category and a finalist for the "Big Book" award.
Evgeny Vodolazkin's most personal novel, largely based on the writer's own experience.
A book about a dream that is beautiful despite being unattainable, about searching for a new path and a new foothold, without looking back at death. In the novel "Brisbane," Evgeny Vodolazkin continues the stories of characters ("Laurus," "Aviator") whose fates—as in ancient tragedy—suddenly and irrevocably change. Gleb Yanovsky, a virtuoso musician, loses the ability to perform at the peak of his success due to an illness and attempts to find a different meaning in life, a new foothold. His past helps him in this—he tries to piece together memories of his childhood in Kyiv in the seventies, his youth in Leningrad, the present in Germany, and again in Kyiv in the two-thousands. Yet Brisbane is not among these life journeys. And does such a city even exist? Or is it just a mirage, a dream, a utopian ideal, the music of the spheres?
"As expected, the novel has no relation to the city of Brisbane; otherwise, I wouldn't have named it that. Brisbane is a symbol of something on the other side of the globe, a goal of dreams and efforts that is, of course, unattainable. In general, it is a story of a successful modern musician who has lost the ability to perform and is searching for a new meaning in life. Previously, everything was aimed at success, at that high F he had hit, but he has to admit that the meaning of life does not lie in that high point." Evgeny Vodolazkin, interview with Sputnik radio.
Author: Evgeny Vodolazkin
Pages: 416 (offset). Hardcover
Dimensions: 205x135x23 mm
