pickThis was a fast read. Otto is a former music critic who also happens to be Jewish (although not recognized as such) living with tuberculosis in a sanatorium in Austria in 1939. He attempts to take a stance against the Nazis during the annual music festival. It was interesting to view the beginnings of the holocaust through Otto‘s eyes as a child of a Jewish parent who did not see himself as Jewish and I would like to have spent more time there.
#allthebooksof2017 #shortestbookyouread
Ooh this looks a good challenge and had me revisiting my GR list- anyway this came in at 120 pages but an incredibly moving read.
pickThe diary of an music critic being treated in a TB clinic in Austria from 1939-1940. Events slowly sneak up on the reader as dark humour creates a solid floor which is gradually pulled away from under you so that the ending left me flailing. The small act of rebellion and the ability of music to give hope lit a spark in my heart despite a desperate situation. A short but excellent read that i will read again.
I started this very short book this evening - the diary of a music critic in a tb clinic at the start of the war- the writing is darkly comic but i suspect it will trip me up, hence this sentence which says so much.
Fighting back with music, even while hospitalized with TB in 1940's Salzburg. A short, moving book
Saving Mozart | 
