Piano Angel
ABOUT
THE BOOK
A legacy of bitterness and jealousy in the brothers’ relationship stems from their friendship as teenagers with a young Hungarian refugee, Anci Goldman. Anci, now a widow, reads of Mark’s death in a newspaper, and finds her feelings of loss inseparable from her own past and history. As she embarks on a commission to illustrate the work of Hans Christian Anderson she revisits her childhood in post-Trianon Hungary, the precarious days of war, and the siege of Budapest in 1945.
As Daniel comes to terms with the aftermath, practical and political, of Mark’s death. Anci, encouraged by her sons, decides to contact him again after forty years of silence…
NOMINATING LIBRARY COMMENTS
What seems a straightforward tale of reconciliation between brothers, albeit under tragic circumstances, develops into an understanding of what it means to a people when invasion comes. Time and memory remain ever constant.