Rita Dove Książki

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.

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.