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Published on: 2011-09-06
Released on: 2011-09-06
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Life in Sofia, Bulgaria, in the late 1980s is bleak and controlled. The oppressive Communist regime bears down on all aspects of people’s lives much like the granite sky overhead. In the crumbling old building that hosts the Sofia Music School for the Gifted, inflexible and unsentimental apparatchiks drill the students like soldiers—as if the music they are teaching did not have the power to set these young souls on fire. Fifteen-year-old Konstantin is a brash, brilliant pianist of exceptional sensitivity, struggling toward adulthood in a society where honest expression often comes at a terrible cost. Confined to the Music School 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. Intelligent and arrogant, funny and despairing, compassionate and cruel, he is driven simultaneously by a desire to be the best and an almost irresistible urge to fail. His isolation, buttressed by the grim conventions of a loveless society, prevents him from getting close to the mercurial violin virtuoso Irina, but also from understanding himself. Through it all, Konstantin plays the piano with inflamed passion: he is transported by unparalleled explorations of Chopin, Debussy, and Bach, even as he is cursed by his teachers’ numbing efforts at mind control. Each challenging piano piece takes on a life of its own, engendering exquisite new revelations. A refuge from a reality Konstantin detests, the piano is also what tethers him to it. Yet if he can only truly master this grandest of instruments—as well as his own self-destructive urges—it might just secure his passage out of this broken country. Nikolai Grozni—himself a native of Bulgaria and a world-class pianist in his youth—sets this electrifying portrait of adolescent longing and anxiety against a backdrop of tumultuous, historic world events. Hypnotic and headlong, Wunderkind gives us a stunningly urgent, acutely observed, and wonderfully tragicomic glimpse behind the Iron Curtain at the very end of the Cold War, reminding us of the sometimes life-saving grace of great music. Home - EigerBio A clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company committed to bringing to market novel products for the treatment of orphan diseases. By Peter Benchley Author of "Jaws" - SharkFriends Misunderstood Monsters By Peter Benchley Author of "Jaws" Copyright 1995 Smithsonian Institute. One day a few years after "Jaws" was published I was diving in ... Battle Royale (film) - Wikipedia Battle Royale ( Batoru Rowaiaru?) is a 2000 Japanese dystopian action film adapted from the 1999 novel of the same name by Koushun Takami. A First-time Novelists Midlife Breakthrough -- Vulture Looking out a brownstone window Leo Plumb the novels overgrown enfant terrible muses on Brooklyns quiet lives of aspiration. The Sweeneys moved there ... How I Acted Like A Pundit And Screwed Up On Donald Trump How I Acted Like A Pundit And Screwed Up On Donald Trump Trumps nomination shows the need for a more rigorous approach. Marisha Pessl Plays Detective With Night Film -- Vulture Four years ago Marisha Pesslauthor of the celebrated 2006 novel Special Topics in Calamity Physicsvisited Lenoir-Rhyne University in her native North Carolina ... Chris Sacca on Being Different and Making Billions The ... Chris Sacca was recently the cover story of the Midas Issue of Forbes Magazine. The reason: He is a newly-minted billionaire and the proprietor of what will ... Perfume (novel) - Wikipedia Perfume: The Story of a Murderer is a 1985 literary historical cross-genre novel (originally published in German as Das Parfum) by German writer Patrick Sskind. Harlequin.com SPICE Spice books will now be published under the HQN imprint. Continue to enjoy these sensual and erotic reads; see HQN for upcoming books. 'All The Birds' Overturns Sci-Fi And Fantasy Gently - NPR.org Charlie Jane Anders' debut novel follows a girl with magical powers and a technically brilliant boy uneasy friends since childhood who get caught up in ...
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