The Prague Sonata

By Bradford Morrow

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ISBN: 9780802127150
Themes: historical realistic fiction romance

Preface

Otylie is a young girl when she first comes across the manuscript, her father's prized possession, an 18th century musical sonata of unknown origin. A month later he is dead and Otylie is sent to live with an Aunt in Prague.

On this day she makes a vow that neither music nor war will enter he life again but when she is 30 Prague is invaded by the Germans and Otylie takes drastic action to save the manuscript from falling into German hands. She splits it into three segments: one for herself, one for her friend Irena and one for her husband Jakub.

In 2000 Meta receives one of these fragments as a 30th birthday present and increasingly obsessed with its origins she sets off to Prague to investigate.

Little does she realise that she is not the only one and that her search may be putting her in danger.