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02359aam a22003617i 4500 001 42DDD850475911E7B35354A3DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20170602010157 008 160128s2016 enk 000 f eng d 010 $a 2016387870 020 $a 1784740047 020 $a 9781784740047 020 $a 1784740039 020 $a 9781784740030 035 $a (OCoLC)919104245 040 $a YDXCP $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDXCP $d NLE $d COO $d SINLB $d LTSCA $d ZCU $d OCLCF $d NZALP $d NZCAP $d OCLCO $d OCLCQ $d OCLCO $d OCL $d YDX $d SILO 042 $a lccopycat 043 $a e-sz--- 050 00 $a PR6070 R364 G87 2016 100 1 $a Tremain, Rose, $e author. 245 14 $a The Gustav sonata / $c Rose Tremain. 264 1 $a London : $b Chatto & Windus, $c 2016. 300 $a 241 pages ; $c 23 cm 520 $a '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. 586 $a Costa Novel Award, Shortlist 2016. 650 0 $a World War, 1939-1945 $z Switzerland $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Friendship in children $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Male friendship $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Friendship $v Fiction. 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20211102015801.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=42DDD850475911E7B35354A3DAD10320 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search