Music for Wartime: Stories
  • Published:
    Jun-2015 (Hardcover)
    Jun-2016 (Paperback)
  • Formats:
    Print / eBook / Audio
  • Main Genre:
    Historical
  • Pages:
    256
  • Age Level:
    18 & up
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Rebecca Makkai's first two novels, "The Borrower" and "The Hundred-Year House", have established her as one of the freshest and most imaginative voices in fiction. Now, the award-winning writer, whose stories have appeared in four consecutive editions of "The Best American Short Stories," returns with a highly anticipated collection bearing her signature mix of intelligence, wit, and heart.

A reality show producer manipulates two contestants into falling in love, even as her own relationship falls apart. Just after the fall of the Berlin Wall, a young boy has a revelation about his father's past when a renowned Romanian violinist plays a concert in their home. When the prized elephant of a traveling circus keels over dead, the small-town minister tasked with burying its remains comes to question his own faith. In an unnamed country, a composer records the folk songs of two women from a village on the brink of destruction.

These transporting, deeply moving stories -- some inspired by her own family history -- amply demonstrate Makkai's extraordinary range as a storyteller, and confirm her as a master of the short story form.
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EDITIONS
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    •  
    • Jun-2016
    • Penguin
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 0143109235
    • ISBN13: 9780143109235
    • First Edition
    • Jun-2015
    • Viking
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0525426698
    • ISBN13: 9780525426691
    •  
    • Jun-2015
    • Penguin
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 0698195523
    • ISBN13: 9780698195523
    •  
    • Jul-2015
    • Viking Adult
    • eBook (Kindle)



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