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A review by meganac
The Violin of Auschwitz by Maria Àngels Anglada
5.0
Haunting.
It doesn't feel like a WWII novella. It doesn't feel like a war story. It doesn't feel, even, like a book about a luthier (although we do learn quite a bit about violin-making in reading it.)
It feels....like a study of the soul, and how it ties to music; how music, though it doesn't move us physically out of trials, lends us the strength we need to endure.
It is a beautiful reminder that beautiful things are still beautiful, even if we have no light to see them.
"It isn't true, is it, Daniel, that music can tame the beasts? Yet, in the end, a song lives."
It doesn't feel like a WWII novella. It doesn't feel like a war story. It doesn't feel, even, like a book about a luthier (although we do learn quite a bit about violin-making in reading it.)
It feels....like a study of the soul, and how it ties to music; how music, though it doesn't move us physically out of trials, lends us the strength we need to endure.
It is a beautiful reminder that beautiful things are still beautiful, even if we have no light to see them.
"It isn't true, is it, Daniel, that music can tame the beasts? Yet, in the end, a song lives."