And After the Fire - Softcover

Belfer, Lauren

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0062428527 ISBN 13: 9780062428523

Verlag: HarperCollins, 2022

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"Music pulses through this rich tale of love, morality, and a lost cantata.... Filled with history, gorgeous descriptions of music, and people both real and imagined."--Washington Independent Review of Books

"This latest novel from Belfer...is her most compelling yet.... Told with lyrical beauty (in a tender love scene, the past exists with the present), the novel is like the lost cantata itself, revealing our capacity for darkness, redeemed by the power of unconditional love. A dazzling, transformative novel. Highly recommended."--Historical Novel Review

"A fascinating historical novel and poignant love story that will open the eyes and ears of music lovers and please those who enjoy a graceful, spellbinding tale pondering important questions."--Library Journal (starred review)

"Brilliant and mesmerizing.... Since reading And After the Fire, I've been trumpeting it as the best novel I've had the pleasure of reading in years."--Elinor Lipman, New York Times bestselling author of Then She Found Me

"One of the four best novels published to date in 2016.... The research and writing are... splendidly accomplished.... Brilliant."--AEQAI

"On as grand a scale as any Bach masterpiece, Belfer's novel explores the composer's religious music and its effect on two women living 300 years apart.... Powerfully and emotionally written.... A fascinating, compelling read."--RT Reviews

"Belfer's prose is heartbreaking, as are her twin themes of love and betrayal, both romantic and familial. . . . She also has a gift for rejuvenating spirit of place--turn-of-the-20th-century Buffalo in City of Light and wartime New York here."--USA Today

"A FIERCE RADIANCE shines with fascinating detail about a moment in American history we have mostly forgotten, when penicillin was new, miraculous, and in short supply. Belfer's powerful portrayal of how people are changed in pursuit of a miracle makes this book an especially compelling read."--Nancy Horan, author of Loving Frank

"[Belfer's] virtuoso novel...epitomizes Faulkner's epigram that the past is never dead--or even past. Susanna and Sara's storylines inevitably merge, across centuries and continents and gathering suspense. The novel swells with life's great themes--love and death, family and faith --and the insistent, dark music of loss."--USA Today, ****

"In Belfer's hands, fictitious characters blend uncannily with historical ones."--The New Yorker

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National Jewish Book Award Winner!

The New York Times-bestselling author of A Fierce Radiance and City of Light returns with a new powerful and passionate novel—inspired by historical events—about two women, one European and one American, and the mysterious choral masterpiece by Johann Sebastian Bach that changes both their lives.

In the ruins of Germany in 1945, at the end of World War II, American soldier Henry Sachs takes a souvenir, an old music manuscript, from a seemingly deserted mansion and mistakenly kills the girl who tries to stop him.

In America in 2010, Henry’s niece, Susanna Kessler, struggles to rebuild her life after she experiences a devastating act of violence on the streets of New York City. When Henry dies soon after, she uncovers the long-hidden music manuscript. She becomes determined to discover what it is and to return it to its rightful owner, a journey that will challenge her preconceptions about herself and her family’s history—and also offer her an opportunity to finally make peace with the past.

In Berlin, Germany, in 1783, amid the city’s glittering salons where aristocrats and commoners, Christians and Jews, mingle freely despite simmering anti-Semitism, Sara Itzig Levy, a renowned musician, conceals the manuscript of an anti-Jewish cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach, an unsettling gift to her from Bach’s son, her teacher. This work and its disturbing message will haunt Sara and her family for generations to come.

Interweaving the stories of Susanna and Sara, and their families, And After the Fire traverses over two hundred years of history, from the eighteenth century through the Holocaust and into today, seamlessly melding past and present, real and imagined. Lauren Belfer’s deeply researched, evocative, and compelling narrative resonates with emotion and immediacy.

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• Verlag: HarperCollins
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2022
• ISBN 10: 0062428527
• ISBN 13: 9780062428523
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 496