Caesarion
By: Tommy Wieringa ; translated from the Dutch by Sam Garrett
Contributors: Garrett, Sam
Publisher: Portobella Books
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 327
ISBN-13: 9781846272530
Work titles: Caesarion
Description: Ludwig Unter's life held such promise. His parents were artists and, from an early age, his own musical genius had marked him out for a stellar career in the world's concert halls. In his mother's imagination, Ludwig is already on the way to surpassing her most ambitious dreams for him. But in reality, and for now, he's playing in local cocktail bars and the two of them are living alone in a storm-lashed clifftop cottage in East Anglia. As the forceful winter seas bash away at the coastline, and Ludwig plunks away at the piano, he begins to tell a woman his story: a story of beauty and decay, of a child's faith and parental betrayal, and of the importance, in the end, of self-sacrifice.
Notes: Translated from the Dutch.