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Detallando la volátil relación entre el violinista negro George Bridgetower y Beethoven, el hijo de una mujer blanca y un "príncipe africano", George Polgreen Bridgetower (1780–1860) viaja a Viena para conocer al genio "chico malo" Ludwig van Beethoven. La gran sonata del compositor está originalmente dedicada al joven mulato, pero George, exuberante por el reconocimiento, ofende a Beethoven por una mujer. De este encuentro crucial evoluciona un relato poético grandioso pero melancólico.

A debut novel by the 1987 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for poetry, about an artist on a journey of self-discovery—navigating a family secret, racism, and the conflict between marriage and career. “Skillfully evokes the mood of a decade when social change seemed not only possible but imminent.” —Washington Post Book World When a woman returns to her Midwestern hometown as an artist-in-residence to teach puppetry to schoolchildren, her homecoming also means grappling with artistic ambition, memories of rejected love, and shocking truths about her family.