{"product_id":"weight-of-a-piano","title":"Weight Of A Piano","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Emotions resonate across time in Chris Canders’s absorbing tale.\" - \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Intense and imaginative.\" - \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e“Cander grabs the reader in her bravura, thickly detailed opening pages.” - \u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews (starred review)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e“Impossible to put down and impossible to forget.” - \u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal (starred review)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA dazzling exploration of how the human heart can both break and be restored\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHidden in dense forests high in the Romanian mountains, where the winters were especially cold and long, were spruce trees that would be made into pianos: exquisite instruments famous for the warmth of their tone and beloved by the likes of Schumann and Liszt. One man alone knew how to choose them . . . \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Weight of a Piano\u003c\/i\u003e is a tour-de-force about two women and the piano that inexorably ties their lives together through time and across continents.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1962, in the Soviet Union, eight-year-old Katya is bequeathed what will become the love of her life, a Blüthner piano built by a master piano-maker at the turn of the century in Germany. In 2012, in California, twenty-six-year-old Clara Lundy loses another boyfriend and again has to find a new apartment, a situation which is further complicated by the gift her father had given her for her twelfth birthday: a Blüthner piano. The mysterious—and tragic—connections between Katya and Clara unravel gradually yet thrillingly in Chris Cander’s powerful novel about attraction, obsession, creative passion, love and loss.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e“This is a powerful tale of how we live with grief, with what we hang on to of the people we love and the joy and pain of memory…a riveting read.” - Paul Burke \u003ci\u003eNB Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57316469571966,"sku":"NW9781787702103","price":11.34,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781787702103.jpg?v=1778718847","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/weight-of-a-piano","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}