La musica nelle ossa

Russia, 1960. In the exclusive Red Star school, Anna joins the prestigious Cosmo Club, an association of the best students, along with a new boy, irreverent and rebellious Marko. He brings poetry, art and music to the Club’s secret parties – Western music, rock, which is severely prohibited. He does so with bootleg records, pressed on X-rays. Western rock is freedom and life, something to blow the school’s strict rules off their hinges. The girls and boys open up to life, love, and art. They put together a clandestine magazine and compete with other schools in Moscow – until Marko’s secret is discovered by a boy with a crush on Anna, a chess champion who uses the school’s athletes as his henchmen. A conflict begins, full of chases, mysteries and emotions, leading Anna to confront her own father: a teacher at her school, and a secret agent of the Ministry of the Interior.

• A coming-of-age novel where the relationships between the characters evolve and change.
• Chases, secret plans, forbidden parties, clandestine art and prohibited music. a suspenseful adventure you won’t want to put down.
• Records pressed on x-rays really existed, and they made it possible to sidestep the state monopoly on vinyl: flexible, easy to hide and costing just a few roubles, they enabled thousands of Soviets to listen to rock and roll and western music.