Sách - The Weight of a Piano by Chris Cander (UK edition, paperback) tại Lotte Market

Giới thiệu Sách - The Weight of a Piano by Chris Cander (UK edition, paperback) tại Lotte Market

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Publisher: Independent Alliance

Origin: United Kingdom (Imported)

ISBN 13: 9781787702103

Condition: Brandnew

Binding: paperback

Pages: 304

Dimensons: 210 x 135 x 30 | 400 (gram)

---------------------------------------- A dazzling exploration of how the human heart can both break and be restored

"Emotions resonate across time in Chris Canders’s absorbing tale." - Guardian

"Intense and imaginative." - The New York Times

“Cander grabs the reader in her bravura, thickly detailed opening pages.” - Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

“Impossible to put down and impossible to forget.” - Library Journal (starred review)

A dazzling exploration of how the human heart can both break and be restored

Hidden in dense forests high in the Romanian mountains, where the winters were especially cold and long, were spruce trees that would be made into pianos: exquisite instruments famous for the warmth of their tone and beloved by the likes of Schumann and Liszt. One man alone knew how to choose them . . .

The Weight of a Piano is a tour-de-force about two women and the piano that inexorably ties their lives together through time and across continents.

In 1962, in the Soviet Union, eight-year-old Katya is bequeathed what will become the love of her life, a Blüthner piano built by a master piano-maker at the turn of the century in Germany. In 2012, in California, twenty-six-year-old Clara Lundy loses another boyfriend and again has to find a new apartment, a situation which is further complicated by the gift her father had given her for her twelfth birthday: a Blüthner piano. The mysterious—and tragic—connections between Katya and Clara unravel gradually yet thrillingly in Chris Cander’s powerful novel about attraction, obsession, creative passion, love and loss.

“This is a powerful tale of how we live with grief, with what we hang on to of the people we love and the joy and pain of memory…a riveting read.” - Paul Burke NB Magazine

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“Heart-wrenching. Readers stay griped by the questions this novel raises about the power of fetishized possessions, about the effects of family members on each other, about the difficulties of finding love and recognizing it. The settings are gripping too: from Brezhnev’s Russia to late-20th century California, cold Romanian forest to torrid Valley.”

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“Cander grabs the reader in her bravura, thickly detailed opening pages.”

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“Cander brilliantly and convincingly expresses music and visual art in her writing, capturing both within a near-alien but surprisingly stunning landscape.”

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"Gorgeous and melancholy."

Giá sản phẩm trên Tiki đã bao gồm thuế theo luật hiện hành. Bên cạnh đó, tuỳ vào loại sản phẩm, hình thức và địa chỉ giao hàng mà có thể phát sinh thêm chi phí khác như phí vận chuyển, phụ phí hàng cồng kềnh, thuế nhập khẩu (đối với đơn hàng giao từ nước ngoài có giá trị trên 1 triệu đồng).....