Story of a Life

In 1943, Konstantin Paustovsky, the Soviet Union`s most revered author, started out on his masterwork - The Story of a Life; a grand, novelistic memoir of a life lived on the fast-unfurling frontiers of Russian history. Eventually published over six volumes, it would cement Paustovsky`s reputation as the voice of Russia around the world, and see him nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Taking its reader from Paustovsky`s Ukrainian youth, struggling with a family on the verge of collapse and the first flourishes of creative ambition, to his experiences working as a paramedic on Russia`s frontlines and then as a journalist covering the country`s violent spiral into revolution, The Story of a Life offers a portrait of an artistic journey like no other.