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Gustav Perle matures in a tiny town in Switzerland, where the horrors of the Second World War seem to be only a faraway echo. An only child, he lives together with Emilie, the mom he adores but who treats him with bitter seriousness. He starts an intense friendship with a Jewish son his age, talented and mercurial Anton Zweibel, a budding concert pianist. Moving backward to the battle years and the unpleasant repercussions of your function of conscience, and frontward through the lives and professions of two men, The Gustav Sonata explores the keen love of childhood friendship as it is lost, changed, and regained over a lifetime. Moving between your 1930s and the 1990s, this fierce and magnificently orchestrated book explores the great real human issues of racism and tolerance, airfare and refuge, cruelty and tenderness. It is a robust and deeply moving addition to the precious oeuvre of one of our ideal contemporary novelists.
