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Utopia Avenue

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For the first time in Russian - the newest novel of the modern classic David Mitchell, twice finalist for the Booker Prize, author of such intellectual bestsellers as "Dream No. 9", "Cloud Atlas" (recently screened by Tom Tykwer and the Wachowski brothers), "The Hungry House" and others. And though "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 again constructs "a grand project, gorgeously executed and deeply humanistic, making connections between Edo-era Japan and a distant apocalyptic future" (Los Angeles Times). Before us is "a vivid, imaginative and stirring portrait of an era when it was believed that the future belonged to youth and music. And at the same time, there is a pang of sadness at the fleeting nature of that idealism" (Spectator). It would seem that only chance or producer's arbitrariness brought together blues bassist Dean Moss, banished from the band "Battleship Potemkin", guitar virtuoso Jasper de Zoot, from whose head the evil spirit breaks free, known to him since childhood as Tuk-Tuk, pianist Elf Holloway of the folk duo Fletcher & Holloway, and jazz drummer Griff Griffin - but in its short history, Utopia Avenue has left an indelible mark on the memories and hearts of an entire generation....
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