★ This book is shortlisted for one of the most important literature awards in Russia in 2019 -- "Big Book Award"! The book is also a finalist for the 2019 Russian National Bestseller Award!
★ Rights sold to France , the United Kingdom, Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Armenia!
★ the story is about the life of a musical genius, searching for inner peace in the face of an incurable disease. Music and words blend together to make the touching story resonate with the instruments and make it become timeless.
★ Evgeny Vodolazkin remains true to his literary ideas in this new work: he dilates on time and eternity. In this book, the hero did not overcome death through music, love did not overcome death, the final victory over death is memory.

Gleb Jansky, an internationally renowned guitarist, was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease at the age of 50. Gleb accepted an offer from Russian writer Sergey Nesterov to write an autobiography about his life. They met regularly over the years, and Gleb recounted his life: childhood in Kiev, college years in St. Petersburg, many years living with his German wife Katarina in Munich... These memoirs map Gleb's life and his different attitudes towards music and death at different times, Over the years, the relationship between music and death has become more and more intense -- conflict and balance…

Evgene Vodolazkin：

WINNER OF THE BIG BOOK AWARD AND YASNAYA POLYANA PRIZE 2013
SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER PRIZE 2013, THE BOOKER
PRIZE 2013, THE BIG BOOK AWARD 2010,
ANDREI BELY PRIZE 2009
His works have been authorized to be published in more than 30 countries!

Evgene Vodolazkin was born in Kiev in 1964. A scholarly expert in the old Russian literature, since 1990 Vodolazkin has worked in the department of the Old Russian Literature at the Pushkin House. Prof. Dmitry Likhachev’s pupil, Evgene Vodolazkin has numerous academic published titles and articles to his name and has been awarded fellowships for research and lectureship in Germany from Toepfer Foundation and Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. Vodolazkin’s debut novel, Solovyov and Larionov, became an immediate success, shortlisted to Andrei Bely Prize (2009) and Big Book Award (2010). Laurus is Evgene Vodolazkin’s second novel. Evgene Vodolazkin lives with his family in St Petersburg, Russia.