Appassionata Paperback – 3 May 2011
by
Eva Hoffman
(Author)
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Selected as one of Oprah.com’s 20 Tantalizing Beach Reads
Selected as a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice
Isabel Merton is a renowned concert pianist, whose performances are marked by a rare intensity of feeling. At the height of her career, she feels increasingly torn between the compelling musical realm she deeply inhabits, and her fragmented itinerant artist’s life, with its frequent flights, anonymous hotels, and brief, arbitrary encounters. Away from her New York home on a European tour, Isabel meets a political exile from a war-torn country, a man driven by a rankling sense of injustice and a powerful desire to vindicate his cause and avenge his people. As their paths cross in several cities, they are drawn to each other both by their differences and their seemingly parallel passions–until a menacing incident throws her into a creative crisis, and forces her to reevaluate her lover's actions, and her own motives. In this story of contemporary love and conflict, Hoffman illuminates the currents and undercurrents of our time, as she explores the luminous and dark faces of romanticism, and those perennial human yearnings, frustrations, and moral choices that can lead to destructiveness, or the richest art.
Selected as a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice
Isabel Merton is a renowned concert pianist, whose performances are marked by a rare intensity of feeling. At the height of her career, she feels increasingly torn between the compelling musical realm she deeply inhabits, and her fragmented itinerant artist’s life, with its frequent flights, anonymous hotels, and brief, arbitrary encounters. Away from her New York home on a European tour, Isabel meets a political exile from a war-torn country, a man driven by a rankling sense of injustice and a powerful desire to vindicate his cause and avenge his people. As their paths cross in several cities, they are drawn to each other both by their differences and their seemingly parallel passions–until a menacing incident throws her into a creative crisis, and forces her to reevaluate her lover's actions, and her own motives. In this story of contemporary love and conflict, Hoffman illuminates the currents and undercurrents of our time, as she explores the luminous and dark faces of romanticism, and those perennial human yearnings, frustrations, and moral choices that can lead to destructiveness, or the richest art.
- Print length265 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication date3 May 2011
- ISBN-101590514572
- ISBN-13978-1590514573
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About the Author
Eva Hoffmanwas born in Krakow, Poland, and emigrated to America in her teens. She is the author of Lost in Translation, Exit Into History, Shtetl, The Secret, and After Such Knowledge, and the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Whiting Award, and an award from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. She lives in London.
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- Language : English
- Paperback : 265 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1590514572
- ISBN-13 : 978-1590514573
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eva hoffman
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 19 March 2014Verified Purchase
everything by eva hoffman ist gripping striking interesting overwhelming illuminating inspring touching sympathetic enlightening human rare warm sensitive evocative and really just amazing!!! she writes so beautifully and with such feeling and senstitivity something so rare in todays world.
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Reviewed in the United States on 6 January 2012Verified Purchase
This was a Christmas gift for my wife, who is a pianist. It arrived in good time and in perfect shape. Regarding the content of the book, it's been very well reviewed. My wife is looking forward to reading it.
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Heroine not the least bit believable
Reviewed in the United States on 5 March 2012Verified Purchase
Not only was she self-absorbed, but she was stupid. Anyone in their right mind, no matter how naive, would have known better than to get herself on some of the positions this character did. It's difficult to enjoy a book when you don't like the protagonist. Very disappointing.