The Gustav Sonata
'It was a game of love and death. Neither of us will ever speak about it. It's locked inside us.'Gustav Perle grows up in a small town in Switzerland, where the horrors of the Second World War seem distant. He adores his mother but she treats him with bitter severity, disapproving especially of his intense friendship with Anton, the Jewish boy at school. A gifted pianist, Anton is tortured by stage fright; only in secret games with Gustav does his imagination thrive. But Gustav is taught that he must develop a hard shell, 'like a coconut', to protect the softness inside - just like the hard shell perfected by his country, to protect its neutr…
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- ISBN: 978-1-78474-004-7
- EAN: 9781784740047
- Produktnummer: 18932538
- Verlag: Random House UK
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 256 S.
- Ausstattung: Trade Paperback
- Masse: H21.6 cm x B13.4 cm x D1.8 cm 275 g
- Gewicht: 275
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Rose Tremain's bestselling novels have been published in thirty countries and have won many awards, including the Orange Prize (The Road Home), the Whitbread Novel of the Year (Music & Silence) and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize (Sacred Country); Restoration was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Rose Tremain was made a CBE in 2007 and was appointed Chancellor of the University of East Anglia in 2013. She lives in Norfolk and London with the biographer, Richard Holmes.www.rosetremain.co.uk
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