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Could the greatest musician of all time live his life in a remote peasant village and never be discovered by the world? Set against the backdrop of an Alpine village in the nineteenth century, this astounding novel tells the story of Elias Johannes Alder, a musical genius with supernatural hearing who develops his talent in secret midnight sessions at the church organ.A spiritual descendant of Patrick Süskind’s Perfume and translated into twenty-four languages, Brother of Sleep moves inexorably toward tragedy as Elias is undone by his intense feeling for Elsbeth, the woman he loves. In this shocking and beguiling novel, Robert Schneider has created a world that is utterly seductive and wholly original.
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Brother of Sleep, Robert Schneider
- Langue
- Année de publication
- 1996
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- Titre
- Brother of Sleep
- Langue
- Anglais
- Auteurs
- Robert Schneider
- Éditeur
- The Overlook Press
- Publié
- 1996
- Séries
- Mots clés
- Fiction, Thème historique, Thématique musicale, Amour, Classiques, Littérature allemande, L'école, Mort, Roman social, 19e siècle, Adapté au cinéma, Autriche, Réalisme magique, Romans psychologiques, Passion, Suicide, Villages, Littérature autrichienne, Sommeil, Folie, Amour malheureux, Orgues, Génialité
- Première publication
- 1992
- Titre original
- Schlafes Bruder
- Évaluation
- 3,85 sur 5
- Description
- Could the greatest musician of all time live his life in a remote peasant village and never be discovered by the world? Set against the backdrop of an Alpine village in the nineteenth century, this astounding novel tells the story of Elias Johannes Alder, a musical genius with supernatural hearing who develops his talent in secret midnight sessions at the church organ.A spiritual descendant of Patrick Süskind’s Perfume and translated into twenty-four languages, Brother of Sleep moves inexorably toward tragedy as Elias is undone by his intense feeling for Elsbeth, the woman he loves. In this shocking and beguiling novel, Robert Schneider has created a world that is utterly seductive and wholly original.