Date & Time: Thursday, 25th April 2013, 6.00 p.m.
Venue: Goethe-Institut Library
Entry: Free
The narrator of this witty, ironic exquisitely told tale of love and loss is a middle-aged German composer who writes avant-garde music, but makes a living producing jingles for TV. When Judith, an ambitious young cello player from Budapest (whose mother was once the composer’s lover and who may or may not be his daughter), shows up on his doorstep, he agrees to take her in while she studies at the conservatory in Munich. Judith’s presence evokes memories of a far different time, when Eastern Europe was a world away and when life was about art. As our protagonist sets out for the composer’s house in Southern France, where he will finish his opera and she will master her instrument, it gradually becomes clear that this young woman is playing more than the cello.
Excerpts from the novel will be read in English and German by Pete Openda and Peter Schreiber.
