Utopia Avenue

22 hrs. 8 min.

Language Russian

Author David Mitchell

Narrator Lora Luganskaya

Description

For the first time in Russian— the newest novel by contemporary classic David Mitchell, a two-time Booker Prize finalist and author of such intellectual bestsellers as “Number Nine Dream,” “Cloud Atlas” (recently adapted by Tom Tykwer and the Wachowskis), “The Bone Clocks,” and others. And although “Utopia Avenue” seems limited in time and space—“swinging London,” the legendary Chelsea Hotel in New York, San Francisco at the end of “the summer of love”—Mitchell builds again his “grand project, brilliantly executed and deeply humanistic,” establishing connections between Japan of the Edo period and a far apocalyptic future (Los Angeles Times). Before us is a “vivid, imagery-rich and stirring portrait of an era when it was believed that the future belonged to youth and music. And at the same time—a piercing sadness about the fleeting nature of that idealism” (Spectator). It would seem that only chance or a producer’s whim brought together the blues bassist Dean Moss, expelled from the band “The Battleship Potemkin,” the virtuoso guitarist Jasper de Zoet, whose childhood-taught evil spirit “Tuk-Tuk” bursts out of his head, the pianist Elphie Holloway from the folk duo “Fletcher and Holloway,” and the jazz drummer Griff Griffin—but in its short history, “Utopia Avenue” has left an unforgettable mark on the memories and hearts of an entire generation…