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- Publisher: PS Publishing (Sep 2006)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1904619843
- ISBN-13: 978-1904619840
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 5,016,268 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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A fairy tale for grown-ups
13 April 2012
By laytonwoman3rd
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A novella that feels very much like a fairy tale for grown-ups. An elderly Czech composer (clearly based on Leos Janácek if you know even a little about his life and work) is left behind in a small nameless village somewhere in Czechoslovakia when his train is delayed by an avalanche on the tracks. He indulges his habit of recording sounds he hears in musical notation in a small notebook, and becomes obsessed with a particular song sung out of sight by a woman's voice "a vivid contralto...weaving a tune, a melismatic melody of leaps and turns." It is his distraction in attempting to locate this woman that causes him to miss the departure of his train. He is put up in large empty house---almost a Castle---where he is cared for by the housekeeper and her husband. He makes forays into the nearby Woods searching for that tune, which proves very elusive. Soon he begins to feel that Something does not wish him to capture these essential sounds, and yet he cannot give up the quest. There is an atmosphere to this compelling story that is reminiscent of Tolkien. A brilliant evocation of Eastern Europe between the wars, when Magic both dark and bright seemed to infuse the very trees and snowflakes, and mysterious forces were abroad in the land.
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