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The piano maker : a novel / Kurt Palka.
The story of what brings an enigmatic French woman to a small Canadian town in the 1930s, a woman who has found depths of strength in dark times and comes to discover sanctuary at last.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780771071287
- Physical Description: 275 pages ; 21 cm
- Publisher: Toronto, Ontario : McClelland & Stewart, [2015]
- Copyright: ©2015
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| Subject: | French > Canada > Fiction. Nineteen thirties > Fiction. Secrecy > Fiction. Small town life > Fiction. Voyages and travels > Fiction. Nova Scotia > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Historical fiction. Canadian ficiton. |
Available copies
- 44 of 46 copies available at Sitka.
- 1 of 1 copy available at Nakusp Public Library. (Show preferred library)
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- 0 current holds with 0 total copies.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nakusp Public Library | FIC PAL (Text) | 35160000717018 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Bibliotheque St. Claude Library | FIC PAL (Text) | 36725000051102 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Boissevain-Morton Library | F/Palka (Text) | 36266000276019 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Bowen Island Public Library | F PAL (Text) | 30947000505269 | Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Burns Lake Public Library | AF PAL (Text) | 35198000595059 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Castlegar Public Library | FIC PAL (Text) | 35146001946375 | Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Creston Public Library | FIC PAL (Text)
Acquisition Type: New |
35140100001133 | Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Dawson Creek Municipal Public Library | F PAL (Text) | DCL154648 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Fernie Heritage Library | FIC PAL (Text) | 35136000611799 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Fort Nelson Public Library | FIC PAL (Text) | 35246000884435 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
- Random House, Inc.
The suspenseful, emotionally resonant, and utterly compelling story of what brings an enigmatic French woman to a small Canadian town in the 1930s, a woman who has found depths of strength in dark times and comes to discover sanctuary at last. For readers of The Imposter Bride, The Cellist of Sarajevo, Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay, and The Red Violin.
Helene Giroux arrives alone in St. Homais on a winter day. She wears good city clothes and drives an elegant car, and everything she owns is in a small trunk in the back seat. In the local church she finds a fine old piano, a Molnar, and she knows just how fine it is, for her family had manufactured these pianos before the Great War. Then her mother's death and war forces her to abandon her former life.
The story moves back and forth in time as Helene, settling into a simple life, playing the piano for church choir, recalls the extraordinary events that brought her to this place. They include the early loss of her soldier husband and the reappearance of an old suitor who rescues her and her daughter, when she is most desperate; the journeys that very few women of her time could even imagine, into the forests of Indochina in search of ancient treasures and finally, and fatefully, to the Canadian north. When the town policeman confronts her, past and present suddenly converge and she must face an episode that she had thought had been left behind forever. - Random House, Inc.
The suspenseful, emotionally resonant, and utterly compelling story of what brings an enigmatic French woman to a small Canadian town in the 1930s, a woman who has found depths of strength in dark times and comes to discover sanctuary at last. For readers of The Imposter Bride, The Cellist of Sarajevo, Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay, and The Red Violin.
Helene Giroux arrives alone in St. Homais on a winter day. She wears good city clothes and drives an elegant car, and everything she owns is in a small trunk in the back seat. In the local church she finds a fine old piano, a Molnar, and she knows just how fine it is, for her family had manufactured these pianos before the Great War. Then her mother's death and war forces her to abandon her former life.
The story moves back and forth in time as Helene, settling into a simple life, playing the piano for church choir, recalls the extraordinary events that brought her to this place. They include the early loss of her soldier husband and the reappearance of an old suitor who rescues her and her daughter, when she is most desperate; the journeys that very few women of her time could even imagine, into the forests of Indochina in search of ancient treasures and finally, and fatefully, to the Canadian north. When the town policeman confronts her, past and present suddenly converge and she must face an episode that she had thought had been left behind forever.
