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The Gustav Sonata : a novel / Rose Tremain.
"Gustav grows up in a small town in Switzerland, where the horrors of the Second World War seem a distant echo. But Gustav’s father has mysteriously died, and his adored mother Emilie is strangely cold and indifferent to him. Gustav’s life is a lonely one until he meets Anton. An intense lifelong friendship develops but Anton fails to understand how deeply and irrevocably his life and Gustav’s are entwined until it is almost too late..."--Provided by the publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780393246698
- Physical Description: 240 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition: First American edition.
- Publisher: New York : W. W. Norton & Company, 2016.
- Copyright: ©2016.
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| Subject: | World War, 1939-1945 > Switzerland > Fiction. Friendship in children > Fiction. Male friendship > Fiction. Friendship > Fiction. |
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- Baker & Taylor
Growing up in a small town in Switzerland where he is sheltered from the echoes of World War II, only child Gustav forges an intense relationship with a mercurial Jewish boy, Anton, a talented pianist who introduces him to the harsh realities of racism, tolerance and cruelty during a friendship spanning more than half a century. - Baker & Taylor
Growing up sheltered from the echoes of World War II, Gustav forges an intense relationship with a mercurial Jewish boy, Anton, a talented pianist who introduces him to the harsh realities of racism, tolerance, and cruelty during a friendship spanning half a century. - WW Norton
Winner of the 2016 National Jewish Book Award for FictionA breathtakingly radiant story of an unlikely childhood friendship that survives the test of time. - WW Norton
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 Gustavâs family, tracing the roots of his motherâs 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 forward through the lives and careers of the two men, one who becomes a hotel owner, the other a concert pianist, The Gustav Sonata explores the passionate love of childhood friendship as it is lost, transformed, and regained over a lifetime. It is a powerful and deeply moving addition to the beloved oeuvre of one of our greatest contemporary novelists.
