Life in Sofia, Bulgaria, in the late 1980s is bleak and controlled. The oppressive Communist regime bears down on all aspects of people's lives much like the granite sky overhead. In the crumbling old building that hosts the Sofia Music School for the Gifted, inflexible and unsentimental apparatchik[...]
Fifteen-year-old Konstantin is a brash, brilliant pianist of exceptional sensitivity in the bleak and controlled environment of Sofia, Bulgaria, in the 1980s, struggling toward adulthood in a society where honest expression often comes at a terrible cost. Confined to the militaristic Music School fo[...]
A brilliantly colorful memoir of becoming a monk and a young man's spiritual journey in India.
Nikolai Grozni, a Boston jazz pianist prodigy struck by spiritual ennui, suddenly abandoned 15 years of music studies to seek out the Dalai Lama's university in India, where he began his quest for the [...]
En nyckelroman om ett musikaliskt geni bakom järnridån.
Sofia, Bulgarien 1987. Konstantin är 16 år och studerar vid "Musikskolan för begåvade barn". Hans pianolärarinna betraktar honom som en genialisk pianist och det är gärna så Konstantin ser sig själv också. För Konstanti[...]