Evgeny Vodolazkin is a laureate of the Bolshaya Kniga and Yasnaya Polyana awards. In his novel Brisbane, he continues the stories of the characters (Laurus, Aviator), whose fates, as in an ancient tragedy, suddenly and immediately change. Gleb Yanovsky, a virtuoso musician, at the peak of his success loses the opportunity to perform due to illness and tries to find a different meaning in life, a new point of support. He is helped in this by... the past - he tries to collect together the memories of his Kiev childhood in the seventies, his youth in Leningrad, the present in Germany and again in Kyiv in the 2000s. Only Brisbane is not among these travels through life. And does such a city really exist? Or is it just a mirage, a dream, a utopian ideal, the music of the spheres? - In your interviews, the city of Brisbane is often mentioned, well, 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 there is too specific for paradise. Descendants of convicts. - So what? - Paradise requires a good biography. - Have you been there? - Where, in Australia? - No, in paradise. How do you know what kind of biography is required there?
Author: Evgeniy Vodolazkin
Year of release: 2018
Publisher: AST Publishing House
Pages: 416
Cover type: Hardcover
Dimensions: 135x205x22 mm
ISBN: 978-5-17-111100-7