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Verlag: Free Press Jun 2012, 2012
ISBN 10: 1451616945ISBN 13: 9781451616941
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Now in paperback, Wunderkind is a gift for all the senses. Nikolai Grozni's shimmering, visual, and visceral prose unfurls like music, as if a baby grand served as his infernal typewriter (Patti Smith).Fifteen-year-old Konstantin is a brash, brilliant pianist of exceptional sensitivity in the bleak and controlled environment of Sofia, Bulgaria, in the 1980s, struggling toward adulthood in a society where honest expression often comes at a terrible cost. Confined to the militaristic Music School for the Gifted for most of each day and a good part of the night, Konstantin exults in his small rebellions smoking, drinking, and mocking Party pomp and cant at every opportunity. Through it all, Konstantin plays the piano with inflamed passion, transported by unparalleled explorations of Chopin, Debussy, and Bach, even as he is cursed by his teachers' numbing efforts at mind control. Hypnotic and headlong, Wunderkind's dazzling portrait of youthful turmoil gives us a stunningly urgent, exquisitely observed, and wonderfully tragicomic glimpse behind the Iron Curtain at the very end of the Cold War while reminding us of the sometimes life-saving grace of great music.
Verlag: FREE PR, 2012
ISBN 10: 1451616945ISBN 13: 9781451616941
Anbieter: moluna, Greven, Deutschland
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Zustand: New. Über den AutorrnrnNikolai Grozni is a Bulgarian-born American writer. Grozni wrote his first book, the acclaimed memoir Turtle Feet, while living in India, where he spent four years as a Buddhist monk. He holds an MFA i.