Gold Medal, 2023 Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPY) for Literary Fiction&160; &160;Longlisted for the 2023 Dublin Literary AwardWinner of the Ivo Andri&263; 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 EcoVodolazkin's 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 coming-of-age story of a musical prodigy robbed of his talent by an incurable disease who attempts to overcome his mortality.&160;After Gleb Yanovsky, a celebrated guitarist, is diagnosed with Parkinson&8217;s disease at age fifty, he permits a writer, Sergei Nesterov, to pen his biography. For years, they meet regularly as Gleb recounts the life he&8217;s lived thus far: a difficult childhood in Kyiv, his formative musical studies in St.