Pianist in the Dark (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781605983370)

Maria-Theresa von Paradis, the only daughter of the secretary of the empress of Austria, was an exceptionally gifted child. By the age of seventeen, she was a full-fledged virtuoso, playing for the royal family, acclaimed for her beauty and talent . . . and because she was blind. Her father, unable to accept her condition despite her soaring musical gifts, enlists the help of Franz Anton Mesmer, the forerunner of the modern practice of hypnotism, where Maria-Theresa discovers the passions and emotions from which her blindness had previously protected her. In the tradition of Sleeping with Schubert and The Cellist of Sarajevo, the novel is moving portrait of courage, loss, the elation of first love and the pain of lost innocence."

Author: Michele Halberstadt, Mich Le Halberstadt
ISBN-10: 1605983373
ISBN-13: 9781605983370
Publisher: Pegasus Books
Language: English
Published: 05/01/2012
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.26lbs
Size: 7.80h x 5.10w x 0.50d