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Music for Wartime : Stories by Makkai, Rebecca is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
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Named a must-read by the Chicago Tribune, O Magazine, BuzzFeed, The Huffington Post, Minneapolis Star-Tribune, and The L MagazineRebecca Makkai's The Great Believers will be available in summer 2018.Rebecca Makkai's first two novels, The Borrower and The Hundred-Year House, have established her as one of the freshest and most imaginative voices in fiction. Now, the award-winning writer, whose stories have appeared in four consecutive editions of The Best American Short Stories, returns with a highly anticipated collection bearing her signature mix of intelligence, wit, and heart. A reality show producer manipulates two contestants into falling in love, even as her own relationship falls apart. Just after the fall of the Berlin Wall, a young boy has a revelation about his father's past when a renowned Romanian violinist plays a concert in their home. When the prized elephant of a traveling circus keels over dead, the small-town minister tasked with burying its remains comes to question his own faith. In an unnamed country, a composer records the folk songs of two women from a village on the brink of destruction. These transporting, deeply moving stories—some inspired by her own fami
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- Author
- Makkai, Rebecca
- Publisher
- Viking
- Published
- 2015
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780698195523
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, Short Stories, Historical Fiction
- Rating
- 4.09 / 5 (680 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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