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Reviewed on August 1, 2017 | Fiction
In 1939 Prague, as the grasping Germans sweep in, Otylie Barošová protects a musical score her father cherished by splitting it into three parts. Decades later, an elderly Czech immigrant gives New York-based musicologist Meta Taverner the yellowed pages of an entrancing but incomplete sonata that has the sound of an authentic 18th-century work. Is it by C.P.E. Bach? Mozart? A lesser composer demonstrating sudden genius? A burningly ea...Log In or Sign Up to Read More