Music of a life : a novel - Makine, Andrei; Strachan, Geoffrey, trans (New York : Washington Square Press, 2002)
In Worl war II Russia, classical pianist Alexei Berg takes the identity of a dead soldier in the Soviet Army to avoid being arrested by the secret police, and twenty years later, relates his story to a stranger in a train station in the Urals.
Keywords: Pianists -- Soviet Union -- Fiction; Soviet Union -- Fiction; World War, 1939-1945 -- Soviet Union -- Fiction