Music For Wartime: Stories

A short-story collection from the acclaimed author of The Great Believers Named a must-read by the Chicago Tribune, O Magazine, BuzzFeed, The Huffington Post, Minneapolis Star-Tribune, and The L Magazine 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 family history?amply demonstrate Makkai?s extraordinary range as a storyteller, and confirm her as a master of the short story form. ?Richly imagined.? ?Chicago Tribune ?Impressive.? ?O, The Oprah Magazine ?Engrossing.? ?Minneapolis Star-Tribune ?Inventive.? ?W Magazine

Author: Rebecca Makkai

Publisher: Penguin Books

Publication Date: Jun 07, 2016

Number of Pages: 256 pages

Language: English

Binding: Paperback

ISBN-10: 0143109235

ISBN-13: 9780143109235