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The Gustav Sonata: A Novel
Rose Tremain
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Description for The Gustav Sonata: A Novel
Hardcover. Num Pages: 256 pages. Dimension: 165 x 242 x 25. Weight in Grams: 426.
Gustav Perle grows up in a small town in Switzerland, where the horrors of the Second World War seem only a distant echo. An only child, he lives alone with Emilie, the mother he adores but who treats him with bitter severity. He begins an intense friendship with a Jewish boy his age, talented and mercurial Anton Zweibel, a budding concert pianist. The novel follows Gustav’s family, tracing the roots of his mother’s anti-Semitism and its impact on her son and his beloved friend. Moving backward to the war years and the painful repercussions of an act of conscience, and ... Read more
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Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780393246698
SKU
V9780393246698
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99-15
About Rose Tremain
Rose Tremain's prize-winning books, including The Road Home, The Gustav Sonata, Merivel, and The American Lover, have been published in thirty countries. Chancellor of the University of East Anglia, Commander of the Order of the British Empire, and member of the Royal Society of Literature, she lives in Norfolk, England with the biographer Richard Holmes.
Reviews for The Gustav Sonata: A Novel
"Tremain is one of those few writers you trust completely when she goes to any unfamiliar territory, historical or emotional… Tremain knows how to show all the terrible bleak things that can happen between mothers and sons… This most unconventional book offers no easy answer, which makes it as disturbing and electric as any high-wire act. "
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