Evgeny Водолазкин in the new novel "Brisbane" continues histories of heroes ("Лавр", "Airman") fate of that - as in an ancient tragedy - suddenly and changes at once. Gleb Яновский is a musician-virtuoso - on the peak of success throws away opportunity to come forward from illness and tries to find another sense of life, new foothold. Herein helps him. the past - he tries to collect together remembrances about Kyiv childhood in seventieth, about youth in Leningrad, present in Germany and again in Kyiv already in two-thousand. Only Brisbane is not present among these trips on life. And is there such city actually? Or is it simple mirage, dreamings, utopian ideal, music of spheres?