![]() They appear to do a very simple job, which in fact is not simple at all, but the product of sophisticated knowledge and engineering work.’ The language is simple and unadorned, while the story being told is actually very carefully and minutely assembled. The novel is deceptively easy to read, ‘just as the faces of Swiss watches are clear and easy to read. Rose has compared The Gustav Sonata to a Swiss watch. Reviewed by Maggie Fergusson in Slightly Foxed Issue 64. Jewish and mercurial, a talented pianist tortured by nerves when he has to play in public, Anton fails to understand how deeply and irrevocably his life and Gustav’s are entwined. The Gustav Sonata Baileys 2017 Review Insert Literary Pun Here 13.5K subscribers Subscribe 1. 1,225 reviews Gustav Perle grows up in a small town in Switzerland, where the horrors of the Second World War seem only a distant echo.But Gustav’s father has mysteriously died, and his adored mother Emilie is strangely cold and indifferent to him his childhood is spent in lonely isolation.Īs time goes on, he begins an intense friendship with a boy of his own age, Anton Zwiebel. ![]() Gustav Perle grows up in a small town in Switzerland, where the horrors of the Second World War seem a distant echo. ![]()
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