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Wanderer
  • Published: 8 January 2019
  • ISBN: 9781590519257
  • Imprint: Other Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 208
  • RRP: $35.00

Wanderer

A Novel

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8 Jan 2019
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An exceptional debut novel that explores the stifled, unspoken feelings of a music teacher and his former student, and the damage done by their years of silence

Hermin, a composer and instructor, leads a secluded life near the Bourbonnais Mountains in France, composing an homage to Schubert. On a bitter January night, this studious peace is broken when his former pupil, Lenny, a piano prodigy, mysteriously knocks at his door. The two men must confront the ghosts of their past, somewhere between musical harmony, erotic tension, and revelation.

Wanderer, echoing Schubert's recurring theme, is a novel of rare delicacy, a twilight adagio, a Winterreise, and a subtle ode to German Romanticism.
  • Published: 8 January 2019
  • ISBN: 9781590519257
  • Imprint: Other Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 208
  • RRP: $35.00
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Praise for Wanderer

"The German word Wanderer means 'traveler.' This romantic figure of the vagabond infuses this delicate and poetic story, which favors harsh winter nights." --L'Express Styles

"This is a first novel as visual as it is musical, which reads in one go and leaves behind another beautiful melody: that of a new talent blossoming." --Luxemburger Wort

"A story of reunion between musicians. A story of friendship between two men. A tribute to the great German romanticism. All in a light, refined prose, imbued with winter tones." --La Montagne