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The Vienna Melody

BuchKartoniert, Paperback
608 Seiten
Englisch
Europa Editionserschienen am21.07.2015
Christopher Alt is the best piano maker is Vienna. His piano keys have given life to melodies by Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven. On his deathbed, moved by the wish to keep his children united, he leaves a will specifying that his descendants must live together in the family home. There are seething passions and icy relations, a world war and the rise of Nazism to contend with. Three generations of Alts live and die in the house, witnessing a Europe at the zenith of its splendour and the nadir of its devastation.mehr
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KlappentextChristopher Alt is the best piano maker is Vienna. His piano keys have given life to melodies by Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven. On his deathbed, moved by the wish to keep his children united, he leaves a will specifying that his descendants must live together in the family home. There are seething passions and icy relations, a world war and the rise of Nazism to contend with. Three generations of Alts live and die in the house, witnessing a Europe at the zenith of its splendour and the nadir of its devastation.
ZusammenfassungA lost classic that has become an instant bestseller in Europe. Christopher Alt, piano maker, the best in Vienna, is dying. On his deathbed, moved by the wish to keep his children united, he leaves a will specifying that his descendants, if they are to get their inheritance, must live together in the family home.
Details
ISBN/GTIN978-1-60945-272-8
ProduktartBuch
EinbandartKartoniert, Paperback
Erscheinungsjahr2015
Erscheinungsdatum21.07.2015
Seiten608 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
Gewicht794 g
Artikel-Nr.33509656
Rubriken
GenreRomane Hardcover

Inhalt/Kritik

Kritik
"Christopher Alt makes the finest pianos in Vienna. He is very rich. His family thrives. Just one problem: his will insists that they all live in the same house."
-The Irish Times

"What Franz Josef doesn't quite understand is the fundamental Viennese outlook on life:" the frivolous . . . notion that to live is to enjoy!" Lothar's bighearted, witty and wrenching novel-rescued from oblivion by Europa-reminds us how delicate, yet also resilient, that frivolous notion was."
-Washington Post

"A grand novel that offers its readers a profound understanding of Vienna and Austria, rendering them eternal."
-The Los Angeles Times

"The true subject of the novel is Austria, from which [Lothar] fled in 1938, the year the novel ends. His melancholy and feelings of regret for his native land are palpable."
-Minneapolis Star Tribune

"...there are plenty of family mysteries and outright stunning moments that unspool from within Lothar's confident writing to keep the reader engaged up to the novel's stirring end."
-World Literature Today

"A long, passionate, literary embrace with a setting that provides a magnificent backdrop for intense characters and their tangles of ruinous emotions...This is a Buddenbrooks on the Danube."
-La Repubblica (Italy)

"This is a rich family saga which dances through the pages of history to the background of Mozart and Strauss...a glorious melange of period details with a touch of the Kafka-esque. "
-We Love This Book

"The epic ambitions of this writer fills the story with abiding curiosity that leaves traces everywhere: swift and unforgettable sketches of characters, salons, boudoirs, and fascinating gossip"
-La Stampa (Italy)mehr

Autor

Ernst Lothar was born in Brünn, Austria-Hungary (now Brno in the Czech Republic) in 1890 and died in Vienna in 1974. He was a writer, theatre director, and producer. In addition to The Vienna Melody, first published in the US in 1944 as The Angel with the Trumpet, his best-known works are The Prisoner and Beneath Another Sun. He was married to the Austrian actress Adrienne Gessner.