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A Garden of Eden in Hell The Life of Alice Herz-Sommer

Paperback • 2017 • English

A Garden of Eden in Hell The Life of Alice Herz-Sommer

By Melissa Muller, Reinhard Piechocki

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About the book

Alice Herz-Sommer was born in 1903 in Prague, the Prague of the Hapsburgs and of Franz Kafka, a family friend. Musically very gifted, by her mid-teens Alice was one of the best-known pianists in Prague. But as the Nazis swept across Europe her comfortable, bourgeois world began to crumble around her, as anti-Jewish feeling not only intensified but was legitimised. In 1942, Alice's mother was deported. Desperately unhappy, she resolved to learn Chopin's 24 Etudes - the most technically demanding ...Show more

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ISBN

9781509853861

Publisher

PAN PUB

Published year

2017

Language

English

Original title

A Garden of Eden in Hell The Life of Alice Herz-Sommer

Format

Paperback

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