"The Girl With the Violin” Shelley Davidow
If ever a book got my whole attention from beginning to end, it was ‘The Girl With the Violin”.. I loved this story.
Susanna is with her violin teacher, Stefan Heinemeyer, at one of the most remembered event in ‘modern history’.. the destruction of the Berlin Wall…
She has come from the Queensland Conservatorium in Brisbane to the International Academy of Music in Berlin having been granted a scholarship. She has longed to be in the country of her departed grandmother, a victim of the pogrom against the Jews. Gramps fled with her mother, then just a baby, after her Oma spoke against the Nazis. No records were available, maybe Susanna would find more while in Germany. Her development as a musician and as a woman is intriguing.
The whole story develops like a perfect composition of music, of frustration, of love, of self awareness.. it entices the reader to want more. Definitely a book to be reread.
Thank you to Better Reading and publisher HQBooks for providing the the book to review.
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