Book
Exile music
Call Number
- FICTION STEI (OSH)
Publication Information
[New York, NY] : Viking, [2020]
Physical Description
xv, 413 pages ; 24 cm
Summary
Growing up in Vienna in the 1930s, Orly has an idyllic childhood filled with music. Her father plays the viola in the Philharmonic, her mother is a well-regarded opera singer, her older brother holds the neighborhood in his thrall, and most of her eccentric and wonderful extended family live within the city limits. Orly and her upstairs neighbor, Analiese, dream up vivid and elaborate worlds. But in 1938, as their Jewish heritage defines their identity, Orly's father and mother procure refugee visas for La Paz, a city high up in the Bolivian Andes. As the war ends, Bolivia accepts a number of Nazi refugees. Is the security and joy of her day to day life in La Paz what defines home, or is the pull of her past in Europe too strong to ignore?