Partita

FROM THE GLOBAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR <BR><BR>'[Kingsolver] reminds us that a novel can be wildly entertaining and still have a social conscience' NEW YORK TIMES, '100 Best Books of the 21st Century' (on Demon Copperhead)<BR><BR>You've taken Demon to your hearts, prepare for another 'emotionally raw, riotously entertaining' read as you meet Livia.<BR><BR>A song without any answer in it? That's the sound of waiting.<BR><BR>Livia Bohusz misses her brother, Cyrus. Unmoored by his death, and the stifling silence of the family farm, eleven-year-old Livia has no choice but to survive. Her only solace: music, an escape in the quiet rapture piano practice brings. The promise of a new life her talent offers, intoxicating.<BR><BR>So when Livia starts her college music scholarship it feels as if a new life might begin. Immersing herself in her passions in a world where she excels, even as she struggles to fit in with more urbane classmates, she glimpses the possibilities of a life beyond the farm and her parents. <BR><BR>Then one springtime, as the smell of reviving grass and crocuses and the sounds of songbirds fill the air, Livia catches a glimpse of shirt sleeves rolled to the elbow, muscles you wouldn't miss in the rear view:<BR><BR>'Who is that man?'<BR><BR>It is a question Livia may come to wish she had never asked.<BR><BR>From one of the greatest writers alive comes Livia's story, Partita, both a coming-of-age narrative and an examination of midlife hopes and regrets, a novel as simple as love and longing, as touching, complex and finely tuned as the music it celebrates.<BR><BR>Readers love Barbara Kingsolver:<BR>⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Barbara Kingsolver's way with words is beyond description!'<BR>⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'That's the magic of Barbara Kingsolver I guess - to make you laugh in one line and then absolutely wreck you in the next. What a genius'<BR>⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'I love Kingsolver because I never know where she will go next but it will always be somewhere that I've never been before'<BR>⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Barbara Kingsolver has an understanding of the human condition and the abuses inflicted by an unjust society upon those who do not deserve that'<BR>⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'A trademark ability to tell a story with empathy'<BR>⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'One of those writers who somehow can produce writing that sounds as natural as talking and yet that somehow comes out as poetry'<BR>⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Kingsolver is a magician with words'

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