Partita: Author of Demon Copperhead, Double Winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction

FROM THE GLOBAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR
'[Kingsolver] reminds us that a novel can be wildly entertaining and still have a social conscience'
NEW YORK TIMES
, '100 Best Books of the 21st Century' (on
Demon Copperhead
)
You've taken Demon to your hearts, prepare for another 'emotionally raw, riotously entertaining' read as you meet Livia.
A song without any answer in it? That's the sound of waiting.
Livia Bohusz misses her brother, Cyrus. Unmoored by his death, and the stifling silence of the family farm, eleven-year-old Livia has no choice but to survive. Her only solace: music, an escape in the quiet rapture piano practice brings. The promise of a new life her talent offers, intoxicating.
So when Livia starts her college music scholarship it feels as if a new life might begin. Immersing herself in her passions in a world where she excels, even as she struggles to fit in with more urbane classmates, she glimpses the possibilities of a life beyond the farm and her parents.
Then one springtime, as the smell of reviving grass and crocuses and the sounds of songbirds fill the air, Livia catches a glimpse of shirt sleeves rolled to the elbow, muscles you wouldn't miss in the rear view:
'Who is that man?'
It is a question Livia may come to wish she had never asked.
From one of the greatest writers alive comes Livia's story,
Partita
, both a coming-of-age narrative and an examination of midlife hopes and regrets, a novel as simple as love and longing, as touching, complex and finely tuned as the music it celebrates.
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