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The Keeper Of Secrets (2013)

by Julie Thomas(Favorite Author)

3.87 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0062240307 (ISBN13: 9780062240309)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

HarperCollins

review 1: This beautiful book reminded me of People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks, only with a violin and with slightly less polished writing and story telling. I have to think that author has played violin before. Had I not played violin (or another instrument) once upon a time, I may not have connected to the story as much. Initially, I wished that the author had delved further into the history of the violin, but the eventual intersection of the stories proved to be a good balance.
review 2: This is the story of a fameous violin that was stolen by a German SS officer right before WW II, stolen from a Jewish family. A lot of the members of this family die in Dachau or Auschwitz. But one of them survives because he can play a violin. Years later his grandson is a talen... moreted boy, who wins an important violin competition. A fortuned, rich Russian man donates and invests a lot of money in concerts. He owns a very fameous violin ... less

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