Welcome to Litsy!

I chose this for the #Booked2021 category “musical instrument on the cover 🎻 .

This‘d been on my TBR a while, so I‘m glad I got to it, though I didn‘t love it. Neither protagonist is pleasant, but really my overall issue was I didn‘t quite believe their motivations. The story of two brothers, one fostered who‘s a musical prodigy who loses his family in the Holocaust...but who mysteriously disappears the night before his debut performance.

I bought The Song of Names last fall when I realized the movie was based on a book—and that the book was considered unfilmable.

I‘ve been waiting for the right moment to start it. When I walked over to my shelves to pick a book just now, it screamed my name. Opened it and the first lines caught me. Let‘s go!

Also featured, my new book-and-tea tray. Now I don‘t have to lean forward to the coffee table to reach my mug!
#booktomovie #readingnook

Martin grows up to inherit the family music agency and his foster brother, Dovidl, a violin prodigy, disappears on the eve of his debut performance. Martin moves from grief to grievance to a middle-age of cynically competent manipulation (and occasional strategic exploitation) of others. And Dovidl? I'll just say his Jewish origins have a major part to play.
When it is revealed, the "song of names" itself is a heart-stopper: the book is not.