| Record Number |
827509 |
| ISBN |
9780593082485 (paperback) |
| Author |
Lebrecht, Norman, 1948- author. |
| Title |
The song of names : a novel / Norman Lebrecht. |
| Edition |
First Anchor Books MTI edition. |
| Publisher/Date |
New York : Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, 2019. |
| ©2002 |
| Pagination etc. |
311 pages ; 21 cm |
| Contents note |
"Now a major motion picture"--Cover. |
| Summary Note |
Martin Simmonds' father tells him, Never trust a musician when he speaks about love. The advice comes too late. Martin already loves Dovidl Rapoport, an eerily gifted Polish violin prodigy whose parents left him in the Simmonds's care before they perished in the Holocaust. For a time the two boys are closer than brothers. But on the day he is to make his official debut, Dovidl disappears. Only 40 years later does Martin get his first clue about what happened to him. Two boys are growing up in wartime London. Martin is an only child, imprisoned in swottish loneliness. Then Dovidl enters his home, a refugee violinist from Warsaw. 'I am genius,' says Dovidl. 'You have information. Together we make good team.' His arrival brings merriment and love, mischief and menace. Blood-brothers, they roam the ruined city, finding tragedy and triumph, sex and crime. It is the time of their lives, their finest hour. Then Dovidl disappears, on the afternoon of his international debut. Martin is broken-hearted, his father near-bankrupted, the police dumbfounded. Where has he gone? How can a genius escape his date with destiny? How could he betray a brother? Martin is condemned to forty years of humdrum half-life until, one wintry night, an unexpected musical clue sets him on the trail to an astonishing act of self-discovery, and renewal. |
| Subject |
Missing persons -- Fiction |
| Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Fiction |
| Friendship -- Fiction |
| Violinists -- Fiction |
| Music -- Fiction |
| London (England) -- Fiction |
| Added title |
Song of names (Motion picture : 2019) |
| Shelf Location |
F LEBR |
