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Grozni, Nikolai Wunderkind ISBN 13: 9781451616941

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"With heartbreaking insight, "Wunderkind" portrays the searing brutalities of life in Communist Eastern Europe--and the power of music to provide solace and redemption. I found myself astonished, amazed, and moved by this remarkable novel."

--Lauren Belfer, bestselling author of "City of Light" and "A Fierce Radiance"

"Shrewd, rhapsodic, Nikolai Grozni's "Wunderkind" fuses high romanticism with sinister, hard-edged humor. A love-hate letter to a Bulgaria that no longer exists, it contains some of the most vivid, celebratory writing about music I've ever read."

--Zachary Lazar, author of "Sway"

"Grozni's writing is colorful and strong."

--"Publishers Weekly"

""Wunderkind" is a gift for all the senses. Nikolai Grozni's shimmering, visceral prose unfurls like music, as if a baby grand served as his infernal typewriter."

--Patti Smith, bestselling author of "Just Kids"

"Nikolai Grozni's "Wunderkind" is an elegant, graceful novel that captures not only the power and beauty of music, but the stifling oppression of life in a totalitarian state. The novel sings and howls, and in its finest moments, takes the reader's breath away."

--Dinaw Mengestu, author of "The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears "

"In this fine portrait of a suffocating society, what are especially remarkable is the vitality--Konstantin is a rebel with a cause, his anger contagious--and the way Grozni writes about music. Rapturous and insightful . . . passages [are] a real adrenaline rush. . . . [T]his passionate novel should be pushed on anyone interested in music, politics, or energized coming-of-age tales."

--"Library Journal"

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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.

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  • VerlagFree Pr
  • Erscheinungsdatum2012
  • ISBN 10 1451616945
  • ISBN 13 9781451616941
  • EinbandTapa blanda
  • Anzahl der Seiten289
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