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Tremain, Rose.
Subjects
Boys -- Fiction.
Friendship in children -- Fiction.
Male friendship -- Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Switzerland -- Fiction.
Switzerland -- Fiction.
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Tremain, Rose.
Boys -- Fiction.
Friendship in children -- Fiction.
Male friendship -- Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Switzerland -- Fiction.
Switzerland -- Fiction.
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The
Gustav
sonata
/ Rose Tremain.
by
Tremain, Rose.
Chatto & Windus, 2016.
Call #:
FICTION TRE
Subjects
Boys -- Fiction.
Friendship in children -- Fiction.
Male friendship -- Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Switzerland -- Fiction.
Switzerland -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9781784700201 (2017 Vintage trade pbk.)
9781784740030 (hc.)
9781784740047 (trade pbk.)
Description:
241 p. ; 23 cm.
Summary:
"'It was a game of love and death. Neither of us will ever speak about it. It's locked inside us.'
Gustav
Perle grows up in a small town in Switzerland, where the horrors of the Second World War seem distant. He adores his mother but she treats him with bitter severity, disapproving especially of his intense friendship with Anton, the Jewish boy at school. A gifted pianist, Anton is tortured by stage fright; only in secret games with
Gustav
does his imagination thrive. But
Gustav
is taught that he must develop a hard shell, 'like a coconut', to protect the softness inside--just like the hard shell perfected by his country, to protect its neutrality. But despite this hard shell, nothing in
Gustav
's life can be called neutral. Older, and increasingly curious about his absent father,
Gustav
discovers the traces of an erotic love affair--traces which still glow white-hot even now. Fierce, astringent, profoundly tender--and spanning the twentieth century--Rose Tremain's beautifully orchestrated novel explores the big themes of betrayal and the struggle for happiness, and above all, the passionate love of a childhood friendship as it is tested over a lifetime."--From publisher.
Genre:
Historical fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Literary fiction.
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