ARGONAUT BOOKS

In a snowbound railway station deep in the Soviet Union, a stranded passenger comes across an old man playing the piano in the dark, silent tears rolling down his cheeks. When the Moscow train eventually arrives they share a compartment, and the pianist, AlexeÞ Berg, gradually reveals his story. Reviews A very short novel that contains multitudes. A young Russian composer flees Moscow, heading for Ukraine, desperate to escape Stalin's purge of intellectuals in 1941. Then Russia's war with Nazi Germany begins and his life turns upside down. How will he survive? What m...Read More