by Rose Tremain · Random House Uk · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781784700201
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«The Gustav Sonata» is the historical novel by Rose Tremain, published by Random House UK in paperback (320 pages, in English).
Gustav grows up in a Swiss village against the backdrop of the Second World War, with a cold and distant mother after the mysterious death of his father. His friendship with Anton, a Jewish boy with a talent for the piano, accompanies him for decades. The story jumps from the 1930s to the 1990s and explores friendship, love, loss, racism, tolerance, flight and refuge.
It was nominated for the Costa Book Award, the Women's Prize for Fiction, the Walter Scott Prize and the RSL Ondaatje Prize.
Recommended for readers of historical fiction and stories of friendship set during the Second World War.
Dame Rosemary Jane Tremain is an English novelist, short story writer, and former Chancellor of the University of East Anglia. She as been the recipient of many prizes for her writing, including the Giles Cooper Award (1984), the James Tait Black Memorial Prize (1992), the Whitbread Award (1999) and the Orange Prize (2008).
