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Appassionata (2008)

by Eva Hoffman(Favorite Author)

3.36 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1590513193 (ISBN13: 9781590513194)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Other Press

review 1: Not good. I was a serious classical musician and thought it would be wonderful to read about a classical musician and her trials and tribulations. However, the characters are so very flat. Isabel has no dimensions and Anzor is a terrible person. The plot is rather unbelievable, the language is much too flowery and could use a good edit, and some of the musical language she uses is not even accurate! Anyways, it was a quick enough read, but honestly, I felt like i wasted some time reading this book. The only redeeming feature was the ending when she sort of "come into her own".
review 2: This unconventional novel follows the parallel passions of Isabel Merton, a renowned concert pianist, and Anzor Islikhanov, a Chechen political exile driven by a powerful desire... more to avenge his people, with whom she becomes involved. Anzor is a frankly unappealing character, whose interminable lectures are a reminder that terrorists make for uncomfortable dinner parties.Other than Isabel, the characters in the novel seem one dimensional; still the writing was very good,and I would read another novel by this author. Perhaps "Lost in Translation". less

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