In the Siberian expanse, a thousand versts east of Moscow, grandmother, mother, daughter and grandchild live cramped together in a communal apartment, a Kommunalka, amidst the crumbling facades of a bygone era. It is 11 March 1985, a turning point that no-one can yet imagine. A novel about four lives at the crossroads and a lost world whose shadow reaches into the present. “Future Music is a book of hope and consolation, a literary defence of humanity in defiance of the conditions imposed by power.” (Paul Jandl, NZZ)