Nikolai grozny biography of mahatma
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Book Summary and Reviews of Wunderkind by Nikolai Grozni
Book Summary
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.
Nikolai grozny biography of mahatma
In the crumbling old building that hosts the Sofia Music School for the Gifted, inflexible and unsentimental apparatchiks drill the students like soldiers - as if the music they are teaching did not have the power to set these young souls on fire.
Fifteen-year-old Konstantin is a brash, brilliant pianist of exceptional sensitivity, struggling toward adulthood in a society where honest expression often comes at a terrible cost. Confined to the Music School for most of each day and a good part of the night, Konstantin exults in his small rebellions - smoking, drinking, and mocking Party pomp and cant at every opportunity.
Intelligent and arrogant, funny and despairing, compassionate and cruel, he is driven simultaneously by a desire