by Anna Enquist · Luchterhand Literaturvlg. · tapa dura · ISBN 9783630872827
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«Kontrapunkt» is the novel by Anna Enquist, published by Luchterhand Literaturverlag in hardback (215 pages, in German).
A mother who is a pianist tries to cope with the death of her daughter by immersing herself in the study of Bach's Goldberg Variations. As she prepares and performs the thirty variations, the music awakens memories of the girl from birth to adulthood and articulates grief, in a reflection on memory, loss, and art's capacity to console.
Translation from the Dutch by Hanni Ehlers. The work, originally published as Contrapunt in 2008, was nominated for the Libris Literatuurprijs 2009.
Will appeal to those seeking a novel about grief and memory, with Bach's music as its core.
Anna Enquist is the pen name of one of the more popular authors in the Netherlands, Christa Widlund-Broer. She is known for both her poetry and her novels.
