The Prague sonata : a novel /

In 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 appear...

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Main Author: Morrow, Bradford, 1951- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, [2017].
Edition:First edition.
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