A book enjoyable and interesting, although sometimes painful, of this Greg Dawson . I decided to buy it after reading a few lines of the first page. One of those novels that you win instantly where understand that writing is similar to your mood and you need to feel satisfied.
is not a fictional novel but a true story. The author traces the life of the mother and sister, two Ukrainian Jews miraculously survived the Nazi extermination. It does so by expressing sorrow and regret, emotion, affection and profound respect. The love of family, mother Russia, music, independence become desperate voice in a story that becomes longer and paste your eyes to the pages.
History Zhanna and Frino, two wunderkind of the piano, music has saved my life.
Raised in the town of Kharkov , the two children are already very small the prestigious Moscow Conservatory , had a father and a mother sweet candy. But things changed over time, even before the Nazis, even before Hitler invaded the Ukraine and his troops (and Stalin quietly left him to do). The extermination of Ukrainian Jews were happening long lost in the fields and mobile gas trucks equipped for use, the first real gas chambers. The concentration camps Auschwitz and Trerblinka were far away, when Russia saw the first death millions of Jews in Ukraine. Zhanna Frino and survived miraculously, managed to escape the march in the snow, on an empty stomach and no possibility to stop, which lasted many days and nights, bringing unsuspecting (or nearly so) Jews to die along Drobitsky Yar. The life of the watch from his waistcoat Zhanna earned him the father, in which a young soldier could not say no.
The two little girls aged just 12 and 10 years, half crossed between Russia bombing, sightings anti-Semites, Nazis and spies, to be able to find a safe place and a place to make new document and change its name. Without money, no family, no warm clothes and above all without music. The violin's father was like a family member and was robbed without mercy. The piano remained in their old house, which had to leave. Zhanna But keep in the inside pocket of his coat, the score with the face of a young Chopin 's Sudden fantasy. Just remember that in his young life destroyed. Between meetings, lucky breaks, bombing, fear, hunger, cold, prayers, the two manage to finally change its name and start a new life. In Germany it is recognized their talent, improvise and play for the Nazis with all their proud hatred, but also, once the war ended, hundreds of Jews who survived the massacre.
Zhanna never forget the warm, Russia, which will seek to return at all costs, as a blind to a love that can not forget. It will be his sister to stop her, and to save her life.
encounter with an American soldier, able to land in New York and crowns the dream of their lives: a scholarship to the prestigious Juilliard Conservatory.
A true story, told in a very realistic Zhanna's son, Greg. An American attached to its origins and eager to bring to light the terrible story of his family. A story never told within the walls of the house, covered with an aura of mystery to all its growth. A story that would be cleared with the rebirth of Zhanna and Frino, two established musicians and listed, which have made the art of music their lives, and to which art has given a chance to live.
Beautiful, must-read.
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The pianist girl
Greg Dawson
Piemme, 2010
€ 16.50
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