Book 2008
The Spanish bow
- Publisher
- Harcourt
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2008
- Fiction
- Musicians
- History
- Fiction, historical
- Musicians, fiction
- Madrid (spain), fiction
- New York Times reviewed
- Fiction, historical, general
In a dusty, turn-of-the-century Catalan village, the bequest of a cello bow sets young Feliu Delargo on an unlikely path. When a local land owner's wrath threatens his family, the Spanish bow leads Feliu to anarchist Barcelona, then on to the court in Madrid where a music master's daughter gives him his first lessons in the art of love. There he meets up with the charming and eccentric piano prodigy Justo Al-Cerraz and begins the lifelong friendship and rivalry that will orchestrate a tumultuous course for them both.