Saving Mozart - Softcover

Raphael Jerusalmy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1609451457 ISBN 13: 9781609451455

Publisher: Europa Editions, 2013

Synopsis

Raphael Jerusalmy's debut novel takes the form of the journal of Otto J. Steiner, a former music critic of Jewish descent suffering from tuberculosis in a Salzburg sanatorium in 1939. Isolated in the gloomy sanatorium, Steiner finds solace in music. When he learns that the annual Mozart festival is to be turned into a celebration of the Anschluss to be attended by Hitler himself, he is horrified, but is presented with the opportunity to fight back. Steiner formulates a plan to save Mozart that could dramatically change the course of the war.

About this title

Review:

'This slender, confident debut novel is deliciously atmospheric and tense... The narrative voice, sprinkled with dry aperçus, is nicely captured.' --The Financial Times

About the Author:

Rapha'l Jerusalmy is a graduate of the Ecole Normale Sup'rieure and the Sorbonne, has made a career in the Israeli military intelligence before conducting humanitarian operations and education. He is now old book dealer in Tel Aviv. Saving Mozart is his first novel.

About this edition

• Publisher: Europa Editions
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1609451457
• ISBN 13: 9781609451455
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 120