When Feliu Delargo is born, late-nineteenth-century Spain is a nation slipping from international power and struggling with its own fractured identity, caught between the chaos of post-empire and impending Civil War. Feliu's troubled childhood and rise to fame lead him into a thorny partnership with an even more famous and eccentric figure, the piano prodigy Justo Al-Cerraz. The two musicians' divergent artistic goals and political inclinations threaten to divide them as Spain plunges into Civil War. But as Civil War turns to World War, shared love for their trio partner -- an Italian violinist named Aviva -- forces them into their final and most dangerous collaboration.

Spanish Bow

Andromeda Romano-Lax

WINDMILL

**DEBUT FICTION** I was almost born Happy. Literally, Feliz was the Spanish name my mother wanted for me. Not a family name, not a local name, just a hope, stated in the farthest-reaching language she knew—a language that once reached around the world, to the Netherlands, Africa, the Americas, the Philippines. Only music has reached farther and penetrated more deeply.In a dusty, turn-of-the-century Catalan village, the bequest of a cello bow sets young Feliu Delargo on the unlikely path of becoming a musician. Anarchist Barcelona and the court of the embattled monarchy in Madrid teach him his first serious lessons in creativity, principle, and passion—and their consequences. When he meets up with the charming and eccentric piano prodigy Justo Al-Cerraz, their lifelong friendship and rivalry orchestrate a tumultuous course for them both. Over the span of half a century of creative struggle and international turmoil that sees them paying house calls on Picasso one year and being courted by dictators the next, they make glorious music together, and clash over virtually everything else: love, politics, and the purpose of art. When the tensions propelling a war-torn world toward catastrophe bring Aviva, an Italian violinist with a haunted past, into their lives, Feliu and Justo embark upon their final and most dangerous collaboration.

The Spanish Bow

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Ein kleines katalanisches Dorf zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts. Der kleine Feliu Delargo verliert seinen Vater im Krieg. Was ihm als Vermächtnis bleibt, ist sein Cellobogen, mit dem er seine unbändige Liebe zur Musik entdeckt.Mit vierzehn geht Feliu nach Barcelona, um bei einem berühmten Cellisten Unterricht zu nehmen, mit siebzehn an den spanischen Hof nach Madrid. Dort begegnet er Justo Al-Cerraz, einem exzentrischen Pianisten, mit dem ihn eine lebenslange Freundschaft und Rivalität verbindet - und die Liebe zu der Geigerin Aviva. In Anlehnung an das außergewöhnliche Leben Pablo Casals erzählt Der Bogen des Cellisten von der Karriere eines Hochbegabten und lässt ein halbes Jahrhundert spanischer Geschichte lebendig werden. Ein opulenter Roman von großer erzählerischer Kraft, der an Carlos Ruiz Zafóns Der Schatten des Windes erinnert.

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Spanish Bow

The Spanish Bow

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The Spanish Bow

Der Bogen des Cellisten