num_pages: 448
description: With "some of the greatest words ever written on thwarted love since Romeo and Juliet" (The Times, London), Clara reignites, from between the lines of history, the great love of Robert and Clara Schumann.This impassioned novel gives voice to Clara Wieck Schumann, one of the most celebrated pianists of the nineteenth century, who today is best remembered not for her music but for her marriage. "How often you must purchase my songs with invisibility and silence, little Clara," says Robert, and, for Clara, the price of his love is dear. Shrouded in alternate layers of music and silence, the Schumann union was anything but a lullaby, marked by her valiant struggle for self-expression and his tortuous descent into madness.Clara, a deeply moving fugue of love, solitude, and artistic creation, Janice Galloway "has taken a melodic line and scored it for an orchestra" (The New York Times Book Review).
language: English
title: Clara
titlecomplete: Clara
characters: Clara Schumann, Robert Schumann
genres: Historical, Scotland, Womens, Literary Fiction, Music, Historical Fiction, European History, Fiction, British Literature
ratings_count: 288
places: Germany
awards: awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Saltire Society Literary Award
category: Scottish Book of the Year
publisher: Simon & Schuster