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    The Weight of a Piano: A Novel
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    The Weight of a Piano: A Novel

    Written by Chris Cander

    Narrated by Cassandra Campbell

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    About this audiobook

    For fans of Ann Patchett's Bel Canto, Annie Proulx's Accordion Crimes, and Amanda Coplin's The Orchardist.

    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 Blüthner 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, 26-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 12th birthday, shortly before he and her mother died in a fire that burned their house down: a Blüthner upright she has never learned to play. Orphaned, 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...

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateJan 22, 2019
    ISBN9781984839855
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    The Weight of a Piano: A Novel
    Author

    Chris Cander

    Chris Cander is the USA Today bestselling author of the novels The Weight of a Piano, which was named an Indie Next Great Read; Whisper Hollow, also named an Indie Next Great Read, longlisted for the Great Santini Fiction Prize, and a nominee for the 2015 Kirkus Prize for Fiction; and 11 Stories, named by Kirkus Reviews as one of the best books of 2013, the winner of the Independent Publisher Book Award for Fiction, and a USA Best Book Award finalist. She is also the author of the Audible Original Stories Eddies and Grieving Conversations. Cander’s fiction has been published in twelve languages. She lives in her native Houston, Texas, with her husband and two children. For more information, visit www.chriscander.com.

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