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Dancing To The Flute (2012)

by Manisha Jolie Amin(Favorite Author)

3.9 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1742378579 (ISBN13: 9781742378572)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Allen & Unwin Australia

review 1: This book is as haunting and beautiful as the music it describes, played at first by little orphaned (abandoned?) Indian boy Kalu on his plastic flute. The healer who tends Kalu's festering foot recognizes the beauty of the music Kalu produces. So when his foot is healed the healer takes him to his brother, a reclusive musician who more or less adopts the boy and teaches him more about music. As the book cover suggests, it's a quiet story about 'life, music and dreams' - but also about human nature and the richness and music we all carry within us (and about some that do not have this inner beauty). I looked up some of the author's links to the kind of music mentioned in the book, and it is as lovely as I imagined.
review 2: Facinating. Set in India and writte... moren by an Indian woman who was born in Kenya and imigrated to Australia, this novel is based on her childhood experiences of listening to her mother tell mythical tales about India while her father played the Indian flute. It focuses on the transformative powers of music and it follow an abandoned young child, Kalu, on his journey to become a man. I chose this book by chance from the new book shelf in Altoona and am I glad I "took a chance." less

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