Seven Touches of Music
2001
First Published
3.59
Average Rating
128
Number of Pages
This experimental mosaic novel by a Serbian author―who is often compared to such luminaries as Italo Calvino, Franz Kafka, and Jorge Luis Borges―consists of seven wispily-connected stories about unexpected encounters with music. A teacher of autistic students, a librarian, the purchaser of a music box, an elderly woman at a train station, a scientist-turned-painter, a dying professor, and a violin-maker's apprentice seem deceptively ordinary until sudden shifts in time or place thrust them into a realm where all the conventional ways of appreciating music seem not to apply.
Avg Rating
3.59
Number of Ratings
194
5 STARS
20%
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3 STARS
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2 STARS
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Author
Zoran Zivkovic
Author · 22 books
Zoran Živković was born in Belgrade, former Yugoslavia, in 1948. In 1973 he graduated from the Department of General Literature with the theory of literature, Faculty of Philology of the University of Belgrade; he received his master's degree in 1979 and his doctorate in 1982 from the same school. He lives in Belgrade, Serbia, with his wife Mia, who is French, and their twin sons Uroš and Andreja. He teaches Creative Writing at the University of Belgrade, Faculty of Philology. He's received plenty of awards, one of them being the World Fantasy Award for Best Novella (The Library, 2003).
