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Music for Wartime

✍ Scribed by Makkai, Rebecca

Book ID: 109150173
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Year: 2015
Tongue: English
Weight: 201 KB
Category: Fiction
ISBN-13: 9780698195523

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✦ Synopsis

A spellbinding short story collection from a master of the form, the acclaimed author of The Hundred-Year House

Rebecca Makkai's first two novels, The Borrower and The Hundred-Year House have established her as one of the freshest and most imaginative voices in fiction. Now, the acclaimed writer returns with a highly anticipated collection of short stories marked with her signature mix of intelligence, wit, and heart.

A reality show producer manipulates two contestants into falling in love, while her own relationship falls apart. Just after the fall of the Berlin Wall, a young boy has a revelation about his father's past when a renowned Romanian violinist plays a concert in their home. In an unnamed country, a composer records the folk songs of two women from a village on the brink of destruction.

Makkai has been anthologized four times in The Best American Short Stories as well as _The Best American Nonrequired...

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