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By Stephen Orr

Dissonance' starts with piano perform. Fifteen-year-old Erwin Hergert is compelled to take on scales and reports for 6 hours an afternoon through his mom, Madge, who's made up our minds to supply Australia's first nice pianist. to assist Erwin concentration, Madge has exiled her husband, Johann, to the again shed. Jo is clinically determined with melanoma and Madge permits him again inside of, yet just for lengthy sufficient to die. Madge takes Erwin to Hamburg to proceed his reviews. Erwin flourishes in Germany along with his new instructor until eventually he meets a neighbour, sixteen-year-old Luise, and unearths there is extra to existence than tune. in the meantime, Germany is relocating in the direction of struggle. overdue Nineteen Thirties Hamburg kinds the backdrop to an more and more tough love-triangle, as Erwin is torn among the piano, Luise, and the calls for of his love and devotion to his mom. quickly the bombs, actual and imagined, commence falling. Marriage and parenthood crumple to dying, and tragedy. sooner than lengthy Erwin and Madge are drawn into the horrors of a struggle that leaves little time for song. 'Dissonance' is a re-imagining of the 'Frankfurt years' of Rose and Percy Grainger. it is a novel approximately love in a single of its such a lot severe and damaging varieties, and the way humans try to live to tell the tale the specter of possession.

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