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Product details
- ISBN 9781909954885
- Dimensions: 127 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 09 Nov 2023
- Publisher: Barbican Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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"Music transcends war trauma in this important, aching, artful Holocaust novel." - The Toronto Star
Otto, a young cello student in Vienna, is snatched from his home and sent to the concentration camp at Dachau.
Marched from the camp to the Nazi Adjutant’s house, he is forced to play a Stradivarius cello, eyes closed, for the Adjutant’s wife.
Move forward many decades, and Otto is world famous but in retreat on the coast of Big Sur. A young woman, Rosa, turns up with questions. And her own troubled story. "Secrets connect the two strangers, ones that will change their lives."
Is it ever too late to step forward from the horrors of the Holocaust, and dare to trust again?
Martin Goodman’s debut novel On Bended Knees, shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel Award, heralded a major theme of his writing: the aftermath of wars. His nonfiction picked up the theme when his biography of the scientist who worked to counter WW1 gas attacks, Suffer & Survive, won 1st Prize, Basis of Medicine in the BMA Book Awards. In Client Earth, which won the Jury’s Choice Business Book of the Year Award 2018, and the Green Book Award from Santa Monica Libraries, he told the story of ecolawyers who battle to rescue the planet from human destruction. He is Emeritus Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Hull.
