num_pages: 168
description: Against the backdrop of Darwin -- that small, tropical hothouse of a port, half-outback, half-oriental, lying at the tip of northern Australia -- a young and newly arrived southerner encounters the 'maestro', a Viennese refugee with a shadowed past. The occasion is a piano lesson, the first of many . . .
language: English
title: Maestro
titlecomplete: Maestro (A&R Classics)
genres: 20th Century, Australia, School, Novels, Young Adult, Music, Literature, Classics, Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 2139
awards: awardedAt: 631180800000
name: Miles Franklin Literary Award
publisher: Angus & Robertson Limited