Brisbane

Yevgeny Vodolazkin - laureate of the "Big Book" and "Clear Meadow" awards. In the novel "Brisbane", he continues the stories of the characters ("Lavr", "Aviator"), whose fate - like in ancient tragedy - suddenly and immediately changes. Gleb Yanovsky - a virtuoso musician - loses the ability to perform due to illness at the peak of success and tries to find another meaning of life, a new anchor point. In this, he is helped by... the past - he tries to piece together memories of his childhood in Kyiv in the seventies, youth in Leningrad, the present in Germany, and back to Kyiv again in the two thousands. Only Brisbane is not among these life journeys. And is there really such a city? Or is it just a mirage, a dream, a utopian ideal, the music of the spheres? - The city of Brisbane is often mentioned in your interviews, well, and in general - Australia. Why? - Because when we have winter, they have summer. - And when do we have summer? - Then they also have summer. By our standards - summer. In our family, this place was considered paradise. - For paradise, the population there is too specific. Descendants of convicts. - And - 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 needed there?