El violí d'Auschwitz

Synopsis of El violí d'Auschwitz

«El violí d'Auschwitz» is the novel by Maria Àngels Anglada, published by labutxaca in paperback (144 pages, in Catalan).

In the Auschwitz extermination camp, Daniel, a Jewish luthier, hides his true trade from the Nazis and passes himself off as a carpenter to survive. The camp commander, a classical music enthusiast, discovers his real profession and commissions a violin with perfect sound; the craftsman knows the punishment for failure will be terrible.

The work was originally published in 1983; this labutxaca edition is from 2010.

For readers of historical fiction and Holocaust fiction, with an interest in the role of art under extreme conditions.