Publisher description for Appassionata / Eva Hoffman.
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Isabel Merton is a renowned concert pianist, whose performances are_marked by_a rare_responsiveness to the complexities of her art,_and its intensities of feeling._At the height of her career, she feels increasingly torn between the compelling_musical realm_she deeply inhabits, and her fragmented itinerant artist’s life, with its frequent flights, anonymous hotels, and brief, arbitrary encounters. Away from her New York home on a European tour, Isabel meets a political exile from a war-torn country, a man_driven by a rankling_sense of injustice and a powerful desire to_vindicate_his cause and avenge his_people._As their paths cross in several cities, they are drawn to each other both by their differences and their seemingly parallel passions–until a menacing incident throws her into a creative crisis, and forces her_to reevaluate_his actions,_and her own_motives._In this story of contemporary love and conflict,_Hoffman illuminates the currents and undercurrents of our time, as_she_explores the luminous and dark faces of romanticism, and those perennial human yearnings, frustrations, and moral choices that can_lead to destructiveness, or the richest art._
Library of Congress subject headings for this publication:
Women pianists -- Fiction.
Political refugees -- Fiction.
Arts and society -- Fiction.