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008			170519s2017 nyub 000 f eng
010			_a 2017018308
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037			_bPgw, C/O Perseus Distribution 210 American Dr, Jackson, TN, USA, 38301 _nSAN 631-760X
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092			_aMorrow, _bBradford
049			_aNFGA
100	1		_aMorrow, Bradford, _d1951- _eauthor. _9177567
245	1	4	_aThe Prague sonata : _ba novel / _cBradford Morrow.
250			_aFirst Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
263			_a1710
264		1	_aNew York : _bAtlantic Monthly Press, _c2017.
300			_a519 pages : _bcolor map ; _c24 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
500			_aColor map on endpapers.
520			_aIn the early days of the new millennium, pages of a weathered original sonata manuscript--the gift of a Czech immigrant living out her final days in Queens--come into the hands of Meta Taverner, a young musicologist whose concert piano career was cut short by an injury. To Meta's eye, it appears to be an authentic eighteenth-century work; to her discerning ear, the music rendered there is hauntingly beautiful, clearly the undiscovered composition of a master. But there is no indication of who the composer might be. The gift comes with the request that Meta attempt to find the manuscript's true owner--a Prague friend the old woman has not heard from since the Second World War forced them apart--and to make the three-part sonata whole again. Leaving New York behind for the land of Dvořák and Kafka, Meta sets out on an unforgettable search to locate the remaining movements of the sonata and uncover a story that has influenced the course of many lives--even as it becomes clear that she isn't the only one after the music's secrets. Magisterially evoking decades of Prague's tragic and triumphant history, from the First World War through the soaring days of the Velvet Revolution, and moving from postwar London to the heartland of immigrant America, The Prague Sonata is both epic and intimate, evoking the ways in which individual notes of love and sacrifice become part of the celebratory symphony of life.
650		0	_aManuscripts _vFiction. _957671
650		0	_aComposers _vFiction. _954830
650		0	_aWomen musicologists _vFiction. _9222173
651		0	_aPrague (Czech Republic) _xHistory _vFiction. _9339939
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