prodigy pianist, Janna has obtained a scholarship to study at the Moscow Conservatory when Hitler's troops swept into Ukraine. Like all Jews of Kharkov, Janna and her family are led to Drobitski Yar, to be executed en masse. Janna but manages to escape the procession. Frina with her little sister, found by a miracle, she will do anything to survive. Even if they have to play in front of German officers. And follow in Berlin, just weeks before the final assault ...
Without necessarily be the story of the century, one that you and you nailed knocks as I could read sometimes, it is nevertheless a tribute of a son to his mother, pianist prodigy, a survivor of Nazi horrors in Ukraine, but especially small woman came out of early childhood, and viscerally attached to life.
I let myself walk with Janna and her little sister alone in the midst of chaos with it the mantle of his father who pushing her only legacy left for this phrase that will guide all his life "Do as you like, but respect. Go! "Janna will constantly live in spite of everything, and living his art even if we play to please the German. The piano is his life, life. This is a hidden partition on it that Chopin through Europe, where his destiny awaits him and offer him the greatest gift.
We could blame this story to be too good, but it is true. So I do not sulk my pleasure, for a moving book that I read music rocked, and passed a pleasant hour.
Greg Dawson-Literature-259 pages otherwise
The weight of a hidden past had never ceased to haunt Greg Dawson. When Janna, his mother, eventually to reveal his truth, he drew this thrilling odyssey of two children through the Nazi hell.
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