Sonata for Miriam
  • Published: 27 October 2008
  • ISBN: 9780143009207
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 272
  • RRP: $38.00

Sonata for Miriam

  • Linda Olsson
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‘a skilfully balanced book, a work of considerable literary merit and musical integrity' - The Australian

Rich and satisfying, Sonata for Miriam will stay with the reader long after they have put it down.

A middle-aged man living on Auckland's Waiheke Island recalls vividly the sudden death of his daughter Miriam. Grief silenced Adam at the time, but now he decides to break the silence and explore the secrets of the past. The search becomes a tribute to his daughter, and takes Adam from New Zealand to Poland. There he finds the truth about his past, but now he must live with it. On an island off the rocky coast of Sweden he re-connects with the love of his life.

Sonata for Miriam is a heartbreaking tale of a man's search for his past, about the exposure of secrets that have been hidden for too long, and about the importance of talking about the most vital and the most painful in life. But more than anything it is a novel about love.
  • Published: 27 October 2008
  • ISBN: 9780143009207
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 272
  • RRP: $38.00
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Praise for Sonata for Miriam

Sonata for Miriam is a skilfully balanced book, a work of considerable literary merit and musical integrity. Olsson has written the book as though it were a sonata, with musical cadences throughout. Her short, staccato chapters cleverly replicate a Bach partita or a Mendelssohn sonata in their harmonics, their themes and their recapitulations. And the coda comes with as much drama as any finale of Beethoven.

Alan Gold, The Australian