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{{Short description|2001 novella by Andreï Makine}}
{{Infobox book|
| name          = Music of a Life
| image         = Music of a Life.jpg
| image_caption = First English edition
| author        = [[Andreï Makine]]
| title_orig    = La Musique d'une vie
| translator    = [[Geoffrey Strachan]]
| country       = France
| language      = French
| publisher     = [[Éditions du Seuil]] (France)<br>[[Arcade Books]] (UK)
| pub_date      = 2001
| english_pub_date =
| pages         = 132
| isbn          = 9782020483438
}}
'''''Music of a Life''''' ({{Langx|fr|'''La Musique d'une vie'''}}) is a 2001 novella by the French writer [[Andreï Makine]]. A tale of Soviet oppression, it tells the story of a talented Russian piano player who has to abandon his career right before his first concert, flees to the countryside and adopts the identity of a dead soldier.
==Reception==
''[[Publishers Weekly]]'' wrote: "It's a simple story, but Makine's lovely lyric writing—excellently translated—in which the scenes are imagined with a sharply cinematic focus, gives it considerable depth and emotion; the quiet ending, back in the present time, is wrenching."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-55970-637-7|title=Fiction Book Review: Music of a Life by Andrei Makine|work=[[Publishers Weekly]]|date=2002-10-06|accessdate=2017-10-29}}</ref>
The book was awarded the [[Grand prix RTL-Lire]].<ref>{{Cite web|date=2016-03-14|url=http://www.rtl.fr/culture/arts-spectacles/video-les-laureats-du-prix-rtl-lire-evoquent-leurs-souvenirs-7782155913|title=Grand Prix RTL-Lire : les lauréats évoquent leurs souvenirs|language=French|publisher=[[RTL (French radio)|RTL]]|accessdate=2017-10-29}}</ref>
==References==
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{{Andreï Makine}}
[[Category:2001 French novels]]
[[Category:Éditions du Seuil books]]
[[Category:French novellas]]
[[Category:French-language novels]]
[[Category:Novels about political repression in the Soviet Union]]
[[Category:Novels by Andreï Makine]]
[[Category:Novels set in the Stalin era]]