The Violin of Auschwitz by Maria Àngels Anglada

January 5, 2011 by Christina

Fiction — print. Translated from the Catalan by Martha Tennet. Bantam, 2010. Originally published 1994. 109 pgs. Library copy. In the winter of 1991, at a concert in Krakow, an older woman with a marvelously pitched violin meets a fellow musician who is instantly captivated by her instrument. The story then switches from diary format to a narrative tale about a man named Daniel, a Jewish violin maker imprisoned in Auschwitz, and how the violin in question comes into being. […]

Categories: 2011 Reads, Catalan, Europe, Fiction, Genocide, Holocaust, Translated • Tags: Maria Àngels Anglada