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Penguin Books Ltd The Pianist Of Prague

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Penguin Books Ltd The Pianist Of Prague

PRE-ORDER THE PIANIST OF PRAGUE NOW, AND DIVE INTO A DAZZLING WARTIME TALE OF ENDURING LOVE AND HUMAN RESILIENCE THAT WILL LEAVE YOU BREATHLESS---1924, PRAGUETwo worlds collide, until a world at war threatens to tear them apart . . . On her first day at the Viennese Conservatory, gifted pianist and darling of Austria’s salons Charlotte is struck by the intensity of her young Jewish lecturer and composer Hans, the tousled-hair son of the city’s raucous working-class districts.Destiny has its hand in their meeting, and as their worlds collide, the glamorous, glittering concert halls of Vienna and Prague play host to their blossoming, whirlwind romance. But as Europe hurtles toward war, their worlds come crashing down.Charlotte and Hans end up in Theresienstadt, a camp the Nazis used for propaganda purposes to convince outsiders that Jews were being well-treated.Their tragic fate might be sealed, but when the SS commander in charge commissions them to write an opera about the wonders of ‘Life in Paradise Camp’, they seize their only chance to leave a lasting legacy . . . Can their love - and the power of music - triumph over death, politics and the horrors of war?

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