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1 online resource (pages) |
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Print version record. |
| Summary |
When Anna Kramer, a Los Alamos piano teacher, inherits the journals and scores of composer Hana Weissova, she is mystified by this bequest from a woman she does not know. Hana's music, however, soon begins to uncover forgotten emotions, while her journals, which begin in 1945 after she is released from a concentration camp, slowly reveal decades-old secrets that Anna and her family have kept buried. Dissonance is a quiet and dramatic novel that offers great emotional urgency and wisdom. It is bold in its scale, placing readers at different erasin the concentration camp at Theresienstadt and in the scientific world of Los Alamos, New Mexico. With extraordinary sensitivity, the author unfolds the story of a woman musician inheriting the score of another woman's life, reconciling its themes of self-discovery with the processes of self-discovery in her own life, and, finally, freeing imprisoned memory. |
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Theresienstadt (Concentration camp) -- Fiction.
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Fiction.
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Concentration camp inmates -- Fiction.
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Inheritance and succession -- Fiction.
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Prague (Czech Republic) -- Fiction.
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Women music teachers -- Fiction.
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Santa Fe (N.M.) -- Fiction.
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Jewish women -- Fiction.
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FICTION -- Psychological.
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FICTION -- Jewish.
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FICTION -- General.
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Jewish fiction.
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Electronic books.
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Psychological fiction.
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Print version: Lenard-Cook, Lisa. Dissonance 9781939650115 (DLC) 2013040810 (OCoLC)861554706 |
| ISBN |
9781939650146 (electronic bk.) |
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1939650143 (electronic bk.) |
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9781939650122 (electronic bk.) |
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1939650127 (electronic bk.) |
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1306494540 (electronic bk.) |
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9781306494540 (electronic bk.) |
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