"Mirror" is a novel of reflections. Its twenty-four preludes and twenty-four postludes form a cycle of returns, in which each part responds to and transforms the next. Here, the precision of musical form combines with the freedom of poetic thought. Childhood, myth, loss, and inner life come together in a single meditation on memory, time, and what remains when so much has been lost.
Mirror is a novel shaped by reflection.
• Vladimir Gandelsman:
“This is a book of rare inner freedom and spiritual clarity, in which childhood, music, myth and words come together to form a profound knowledge of man.”
• Solomon Volkov:
“At the center of this novel is childhood and memory, that vanishing fabric of life that, despite loss, continues to glow.”
• Alexander Genis:
A novel for a solo virtuoso.