Gold Medal 2023 Independent Publisher Book Awards IPPY for Literary Fictionampamp160 ampamp160Longlisted for the 2023 Dublin Literary AwardWinner of the Ivo Andriampamp263 Grand Prize for best novel of 2022From the INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR Eugene Vodolazkin winner of the BIG BOOK AWARD the LEO TOLSTOY YASNAYA POLYANA AWARD and the READ RUSSIA AWARDFor fans of Dostoyevsky Tolstoy and Umberto EcoVodolazkins new novel Brisbane is a sophisticated and frequently moving study in dissonance dedicated to pointing out contrasts between art and life beauty and decay intention and outcome. And yes between Ukraine and Russia Booklist.Brisbane is a richly layered universal comingofage story of a musical prodigy robbed of his talent by an incurable disease who attempts to overcome his mortality.ampamp160After Gleb Yanovsky a celebrated guitarist is diagnosed with Parkinsonampamp8217s disease at age fifty he permits a writer Sergei Nesterov to pen his biography. For years they meet regularly as Gleb recounts the life heampamp8217s lived thus far a difficult childhood in Kyiv his formative musical studies in St.