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The Instrument Must Not Matter

The Instrument Must Not Matter

Fischer Guy, Christine

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Publisher Price: $23.00

ISBN10: 1998408388
ISBN13: 9781998408382
Publisher: Buckrider Books
Published: May 12 2026
Pages: 236
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

She sees the score for the Bach-Brahms in her mind's eye, hears the indigo notes unfurl.

In this sweeping coming-of-age novel gifted young classical pianist Lila Rys finds herself in New York City studying under famed teacher George Vrubel. The move from Toronto to the American city is terrifying, but Lila is determined to bring music back to the Rys family, where the story of her grandmother refusing to play Soviet music after their tanks rolled into Prague in 1968 is family lore. Accompanied by her brother, Lucas, who is studying at NYU, Lila struggles to navigate the classical musical world and become the successful performer she's expected to be. But in New York she has a romantic encounter with a renegade pianist and everything she knows about herself is turned upside down, until her brother discovers dissident literature that holds the stories her grandmother had not passed on, and Lila learns how to set her love for her family, and her music, free.

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