Why Ciprian loves this book
To me this book was about generational trauma, the weight of which is shown to be carried on our backs and ultimately discarded over several generations, leaving a lot of trauma and heartache behind. It reminded me that the world wars, cold war, and other significant global and local events may still be very much alive in many of us, and bringing that into our awareness may be critical to our happines and to our becoming.
2 authors picked The Weight of a Piano as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.
For fans of Ann Patchett's Bel Canto, Annie Proulx's Accordion Crimes, Amanda Coplin's The Orchardist
A tour-de-force about two women and the piano that inexorably ties their lives together through time and across continents, for better and for worse.
In 1962, in the Soviet Union, eight-year-old Katya is bequeathed what will become the love of her life: a Blüthner piano, built at the turn of the century in Germany, on which she discovers everything that she herself can do with music and what music, in turn, does for her. Yet after marrying, she emigrates with her young family from Russia…
