Tools

9 hrs. 17 min.

Romance & Prose

Language Russian

Author Mark Berkolayko

Narrator Andrey Leonov

Description

Four musical instruments—the violin by the great master Jacob Steiner; two harmonicas, twin sisters; the Turkish drum, tamburo grande, gran cassa—not only sounding, but also thinking, “listening” to the thoughts and feelings of their performers, and understanding even better than them ordinary people. Though no, not ordinary people, because all of them—Valery Perminov, a former major of the KGB; Jürgen Berne, the last student of the genius German mathematician David Hilbert; Varya Stepanova, the dispatcher of a large railroad junction; and Konstantin Barabanshchikov, an invalid and an азартний stock player—refuse to accept the fate imposed on them.

“Instrument” is a novel about love: not love as a fate, but as Destiny; love from beyond this world that saves in this world.

“And then… the wondrous Sviridov melody, bursting through the worldwide blizzard, became alive and all-powerful. Just like the living and all-powerful Hand of Fate extended toward us—its instruments.”