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In the winter of 1991, at a concert in Krakow, an older woman with
a marvelously pitched violin meets a fellow musician who is
instantly captivated by her instrument. When he asks her how she
obtained it, she reveals the remarkable story behind its origin. .
. . Imprisoned at Auschwitz, the notorious concentration camp,
Daniel feels his humanity slipping away. Treasured memories of the
young woman he loved and the prayers that once lingered on his lips
become hazier with each passing day. Then a visit from a mysterious
stranger changes everything, as Daniel's former identity as a
crafter of fine violins is revealed to all. The camp's two most
dangerous men use this information to make a cruel wager: If Daniel
can build a successful violin within a certain number of days, the
Kommandant wins a case of the finest burgundy. If not, the camp
doctor, a torturer, gets hold of Daniel. And so, battling
exhaustion, Daniel tries to recapture his lost art, knowing all too
well the likely cost of failure. Written with lyrical simplicity
and haunting beauty-and interspersed with chilling, actual Nazi
documentation-The Auschwitz Violin is more than just a novel: it is
a testament to the strength of the human spirit and the power of
beauty, art, and hope to triumph over the darkest adversity.
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Death in Spring (Paperback)
Merce Rodoreda; Translated by Martha Tennent; Introduction by Colm Toibin
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Discovery Miles 2 750
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'Soaringly beautiful, urgent and disturbing... A masterpiece.' Colm
Toibin, from the introduction 'Dark and beautiful and brilliant'
Sarah Moss, author of Ghost Wall Death in Spring is a dark and
dream-like tale of a teenage boy's coming of age in a remote
village in the Catalan mountains; a place cut off from the outside
world, where cruel customs are blindly followed, and attempts at
rebellion swiftly crushed. When his father dies, he must navigate
this oppressive society alone, and learn how to live in a place of
crippling conformity. Often seen as an allegory for life under a
dictatorship, Death in Spring is a bewitching and unsettling novel
about power, exile, and the hope that comes from even the smallest
gestures of independence. 'Rodoreda has bedazzled me' Gabriel
Garcia Marquez 'Rodoreda's artistry is of the highest order' Diana
Athill 'Read it for its beauty, for the way it will surprise and
subvert your desires, and as a testament to the human spirit in the
face of brutality and willful inhumanity.' Jesmyn Ward, author of
Sing, Unburied, Sing 'Utterly extraordinary' Claire-Louise Bennett,
author of Pond
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Garden by the Sea (Paperback)
Merce Rodoreda; Translated by Martha Tennent
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Death In Spring (Paperback)
Merce Rodoreda; Translated by Martha Tennent
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