{"product_id":"the-piano-student-9781939931863","title":"The Piano Student","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Explosively passionate, this story of forbidden love and unmet potential is ... for anyone who's ever felt the ineffable power of music.\"\u003cbr\u003e--\u003cb\u003eAja Gabel, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Ensemble\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Piano Student\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e is a novel about regret, secrecy, and music, involving an affair between one of the 20th century's most celebrated pianists, Vladimir Horowitz, and his young male student, Nico Kaufmann, in the late 1930s. As Europe hurtles toward political catastrophe and Horowitz ascends to the pinnacle of artistic achievement, the great pianist hides his illicit passion from his wife Wanda, daughter of the renowned conductor Arturo Toscanini. Based on unpublished letters by Horowitz to Kaufmann that author Lea Singer discovered in Switzerland, this is a riveting and sensitive tale of musical perfection, love, and longing denied, with multiple historical layers and insights into artistic creativity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLauffer, Elisabeth:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eElisabeth Lauffer\u003c\/b\u003e is the recipient of the 2014 Gutekunst Translation Prize. After graduating from Wesleyan University she lived in Berlin where she worked as a commercial translator and then obtained a master's in education from Harvard.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSinger, Lea:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eLea Singer\u003c\/b\u003e is a German cultural historian and a novelist who uses a pseudonym for her fictional works. Under her legal name of Eva Gesine Baur, she has authored biographies of Frédéric Chopin and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. She has also written novels inspired by the lives of pianist Paul Wittgenstein and painter Caspar David Friedrich.","brand":"New Vessel Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50437542347026,"sku":"9781939931863","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_8f465044-a6dc-4cf1-a1fd-1f16c81e1e49.jpg?v=1729644865","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-piano-student-9781939931863","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}