Brother of sleep
By: Robert Schneider ; translated by Shaun Whiteside.
Contributors: Whiteside, Shaun.
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: Overlook Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Woodstock, New York, USA
Language: eng
Translated from: ger
Translation of: Schlafes Bruder
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780879515959
Subjects: Genius and mental illness -- Fiction.; Musicians -- Fiction.
Description: Could the greatest musician of all time live his life in a remote peasant village and never be discovered by the world? Set against the backdrop of an Alpine village in the nineteenth century, this astounding novel tells the story of Elias Johannes Alder, a musical genius with supernatural hearing who develops his talent in secret midnight sessions at the church organ.