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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
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Ackermann

Ackermann

Polek, Nicolette

Hardcover

Mystery & ThrillerGeneral Fiction

Publisher Price: $26.00

PREORDER - Expected ship date February 23, 2027

ISBN10: 1662603754
ISBN13: 9781662603754
Publisher: Astra House
Published: Feb 23 2027
Pages: 208
Language: English
A young woman investigates the disappearance of her beloved piano teacher in the snowy Carpathian mountains.

Exploring love and grief, synthetic biology, music and divinity, Ackermann is a dreamlike literary suspense for readers of Donna Tartt, Fleur Jaeggy, and Marilynne Robinson.

Sasha, a dental assistant in a Carpathian mountain town, has fallen in love with her piano teacher, Ackermann. After seven years of lessons, she thinks she knows him well: his preference for whitefish and duck, his work as an environmental columnist, his place in the yellow chair by the fireplace while she plays. Until one day when, at the appointed time, his chair remains empty, and Ackermann is found shot dead beneath the snow. On Sasha's search for answers, she becomes entangled with a detective, an ice fisherman, a employee of a new biotech lab in the salt mines, and a pastor at the local church, where she discovers Ackermann's final obsession for a Russian composer's unfinished work--one which, once performed, would bring about the end of the world and raise humanity to a new state of consciousness. Ackermann is a thrilling exploration of forgiveness, corruption, and the possibility for transcendence.

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