The Weight of a Piano

Posted on 20 September 2018 by Chris Cander

For fans of Ann Patchett s Bel Canto, Amanda Coplin s The Orchardist, and Annie Proulx s Accordion Crimes A tour de force about two women and the piano that inexorably ties their lives together through time and across continents, for better and for worse.In 1962, in the Soviet Union, eight year old Katya is bequeathed what will become the love of her life a Bl thner piano, built at the turn of the century in Germany, on which she discovers everything that she herself can do with music and what music, in turn, does for her Yet after marrying, she emigrates with her young family from Russia to America, at her husband s frantic insistence, and her piano is lost in the shuffle.In 2012, in Bakersfield, California, twenty six year old Clara Lundy loses another boyfriend and again has to find a new apartment, which is complicated by the gift her father had given her for her twelfth birthday, shortly before he and her mother died in a fire that burned their house down a Bl thner upright she has never learned to play Ophaned, she was raised by her aunt and uncle, who in his car repair shop trained her to become a first rate mechanic, much to the surprise of her subsequent customers But this work, her true mainstay in a scattered life, is put on hold when her hand gets broken while the piano s being moved and in sudden frustration she chooses to sell it And what becomes crucial is who the most interested party turns out to be. New Download [ The Weight of a Piano ] Author [ Chris Cander ] For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr Pianos are difficult to move Ponderous and unwieldly, a piano cannot be moved by oneself Help is required This particular piano carries with it not only its heft but emotional attachments that are equally as heavy Auto mechanic, Clara, drags the piano around from apartment to apartment and relationship to relationship until she meets a photographer with his own baggage associated with the instrument And what of the music or its absence There is a great deal of history associated with this Pianos are difficult to move Ponderous and unwieldly, a piano cannot be moved by oneself Help is required This particular piano carrie...Chris Cander s new book, The Weight of a Piano is simply stunning Her story follows the life of a Bluthner piano as it travels from owner to owner In addition to the piano, there are two women who play central roles in the tale In 1962 when she is 8 years old, Katya is gifted the piano by a neighbor in her apartment building in Russia She eventually emigrates from Russia to the United States losing her piano in the process In 2012, Clara, who was gifted the piano by her father, decides to s Chris Cander s new book, The Weight of a Piano is simply stunning Her story follows the life of a Bluthner piano as it travels from owner to owner In addition to the piano, there are two women who play central roles in the tale In 1962 when she is 8 years old, Katya is gifted the piano by a neighbor in her apartment building in Russia She eventually emigrates from Russia to the U...In 1962, 8 year old Russian Katya receives a piano, which is bequeathed to her by her elderly neighbor, who recognizes the music in Katya The piano is a German Bluthner Katya becomes a gifted pianist and she brings the best out of the piano But her piano is lost to her when her husband decides to leave Russia with high hopes of starting a new life in America with Katya and their son In 2012, Clara is torn about ...OMG, can this book be anyirritating Every major character in this book is either depressed, behaves badly, or keeps making bad decisions It s essentially the story of a young Russian girl named Katya to whom is bequeathed a beautiful and expensive Bl thner piano, which eventually falls into the hands of an American girl named Carla, and how their stories intersect Katya s story in interesting, and I wanted to readabout her Carla s story, whose chapters alternated with Katya s, wa OMG, can this book be anyirritating Every major character in this book is either depressed, behaves badly, or keeps making bad decisions It s essentially the story of a young Russian girl named Katya to whom is bequeathed a beautiful and expensive Bl thner piano, which eventually falls into the hands of an American girl named Carla, and how their stories intersect Katya s story in interesting, and I wanted to readabout her Carla s story, whose chapters alternated with Katya s, was much less interesting by comparison, and I couldn t wait for those chapters to be over I m not sure how anybody could refer to this as a tour de force This type of story is not newit s been done before please refer to the 1998 movie The Red Violin Add to the mix a couple of needless sex scenes that truly ...I have a total book hangover The story is poignant, butimportantly to me is how the people are so real This author clearly understands human emotion on another level, and pulls the reader right into each character s world so completely that you truly forget they are words on a page and not flesh and blood The research that must have gone into this novel in order to include the level of detail it does, is staggering.The PASSIONS are palpable I laughed, I cried, and I even exclaimed Oh I have a total book hangover The story is poignant, butimportantly to me is how the people are so real This author clearly understands human emotion on another level, and pulls the reader right into each character s world so completely that you truly forget they are words on a page and not flesh and blood The research that must have gone into this novel in order to include the level of detail it does, is staggering.The PASSIONS are palpable I laughed, I cried, and I even exclaimed Oh, shit out loud while reading.The author takes you on a journey with each character, and gives you their stories without insulting the reader s intelligence by handholding along the way.For those like me who need a comparison novel I would say my last relationship to characters this strong was when I read All the Light You Cannot See The novel overall also had a perfect blend of past and present that ...The start was GORGEOUS The piano maker roaming the Romanian forests to find a perfect tree the craftsmen carefully creating each instrument by hand But then for as sweeping a story as it was, the language was seriously lackin...Thank you so very much Knopf for my free copy of THE WEIGHT OF A PIANO This is an emotional, poignant novel with elegant prose that will pull you in so much you won t want to let go.In 1962, eight year old Katya Dmitrievna receives a piano from her neighbor who sees something special in her It s a beautiful Bl thner piano and Katya grows up to become a gifted pianist Years later, she s married with a son and her husband decides it s time to leave Russia to start a new life in America, but her Thank you so very much Knopf for my free copy of THE WEIGHT OF A PIANO This is an emotional, poignant nov...I couldn t decide whether to give this book a 3 3.5 or a 4 and After debating I decided on a 4 because it genuinely was a good novel It had some predictable moments however, the alternating stories of the past and present kept me interested not really lagging anywhere throughout Of all the twists there was only really one that I didn t see coming and I enjoyed that This books synopsis is already written out so I will just say that it was a heartfelt book about wrestling with either holdin I couldn t decide whether to give this book a 3 3.5 or a 4 and After debating I decided on a 4 because it genuinely was a good novel It had some predictable m...The book caught my eye when I read some people comparing it to Bel Canto by Ann Patchett I think the similarity ends with music being the focal theme of both books The Weight of a Piano is a very different book, that I thoroughly enjoyed It is a book about how a piano made in Romania, intersects lives one that of a woman in Russia with that of a woman in the United States of America.The Weight of a Piano is about relationships in the modern world, and also in the world gone by The core tho The book caught my eye when I read some people comparing it to Bel Canto by Ann Patchett I think the similarity ends with music being the focal theme of both books The Weight of a Piano is a very different book, that I thoroughly enjoyed It is a book about how a piano made in Romania, i...This book was provided to me for free from Net Galley in exchange for a fair review.Chris Cander starts out this book with a mind blowingly good first chapter The problem with introducing a book with such a beautifully written first chapter is that you lead the readers to believe that every chapter after that is going to be of that same tone and quality Unfortunately the remainde...

20 September 2018

Chris Cander