The piano maker : a novel
(Book)
Author
Published
[Toronto] : McClelland and Stewart, [2015].
Status
Shirlington - Adult Fiction
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F PALKA
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Published
[Toronto] : McClelland and Stewart, [2015].
Format
Book
Physical Desc
275 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Notes
Description
Helene Giroux arrives alone in St. Homais on a winter day. She wears good city clothes and drives an elegant car, and everything she owns is in a small trunk in the back seat. In the local church she finds a fine old piano, a Molnar, and she knows just how fine it is, for her family had manufactured these pianos before the Great War. Then her mother's death and war forces her to abandon her former life. The story moves back and forth in time as Helene, settling into a simple life, playing the piano for church choir, recalls the extraordinary events that brought her to this place. They include the early loss of her soldier husband and the reappearance of an old suitor who rescues her and her daughter, when she is most desperate; the journeys that very few women of her time could even imagine, into the forests of Indochina in search of ancient treasures and finally, and fatefully, to the Canadian north. When the town policeman confronts her, past and present suddenly converge and she must face an episode that she had thought had been left behind forever. --from Amazon.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Palka, K. (2015). The piano maker: a novel . McClelland and Stewart.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Palka, Kurt, 1941-. 2015. The Piano Maker: A Novel. McClelland and Stewart.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Palka, Kurt, 1941-. The Piano Maker: A Novel McClelland and Stewart, 2015.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Palka, Kurt. The Piano Maker: A Novel McClelland and Stewart, 2015.
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