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Dissonance

Dissonance

Lenard-Cook, Lisa

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General FictionHistorical Fiction

ISBN10: 1939650119
ISBN13: 9781939650115
Publisher: Santa Fe Writer's Project
Published: Sep 1 2014
Pages: 196
Weight: 0.39
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.40
Language: English

When Anna Kramer, a Los Alamos piano teacher, inherits the journals and scores of composer Hana Weissova, she is mystified by this bequest from a woman she does not know. Hana's music, however, soon begins to uncover forgotten emotions, while her journals, which begin in 1945 after she is released from a concentration camp, slowly reveal decades-old secrets that Anna and her family have kept buried. Dissonance is a quiet and dramatic novel that offers great emotional urgency and wisdom. It is bold in its scale, placing readers at different eras--in the concentration camp at Theresienstadt and in the scientific world of Los Alamos, New Mexico. With extraordinary sensitivity, the author unfolds the story of a woman musician inheriting the score of another woman's life, reconciling its themes of self-discovery with the processes of self-discovery in her own life, and, finally, freeing imprisoned memory.

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