Alice Herz-Sommer was born in 1903 in Prague, the Prague of the Hapsburgs and of Franz Kafka, a family friend. Musically very gifted, by her mid-teens Alice was one of the best-known pianists in Prague. But as the Nazis swept across Europe her comfortable, bourgeois world began to crumble around her, as anti-Jewish feeling not only intensified but was legitimised. In 1942, Alice's mother was deported. Desperately unhappy, she resolved to learn Chopin's 24 Etudes - the most technically demanding piano pieces she knew - and the complex but beautiful music saved her sanity. A year later, she, too A Garden of Eden in Hell - Melissa Muller, Reinhard Piechocki od authora Melissa Muller, Reinhard Piechocki a nakladatelství za skvělé ceny na e-shopu Martinus. cz.
Autor |
Melissa Muller, Reinhard Piechocki |
Jazyk |
anglický |
Počet stran |
345 |
Rok vydání |
2017 |
Žánr |
beletrie |
Nakladatelství |
Pan Books |