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The Mozart Question

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This is one of the most moving and eloquently written novels I've read in while.  For any musically inclined child from 8 or so upwards then they, and indeed you, can't fail to be incredibly moved and gripped all at the same time as the story unfolds.  In addition, any child who has a love of writing and yearns one day to be a journalist then this novel will give them that further boost of determination to get there.  The Mozart Question will undoubtedly bring tears to your eyes and Michael Foreman's illustrations are a delight to behold.

A note from the author  It is difficult for us to imagine how dreadful was the suffering that went on in the Nazi concentration camps during the second World War.  The enormity of the crime that the Nazis committed is just too overwhelming for us to comprehend.  In their attempt to wipe out an entire race they caused the deaths of six million people, most of them Jews.  It is when you hear the stories of the individuals who lived through it - Anne Frank, Primo Levi - that you begin to understand the horror just a little better, and to understand the evil that caused it.  For me, the most haunting image does not come from literature or film, but from music.  I learned some time ago that in many of the camps the Nazis selected Jwish prisoners and forced them to play in orchestras; for the musician it was simply a way to survive.  In order to calm the new arrivals at the camps they were asked to serenade them as they were lined up and marched off,  many to the gas chambers.  Often they played Mozart.  I wondered how it must have been for a musician who played in such hellish circumstances, who adored Mozart as I do - what thoughts came when playing Mozart later in life.  This was the genesis of my story, this and the sight of a small boy in a square by the Accademia Bridge in Venice, sitting one night, in his pyjamas on his tricycle, listening to a busker. He sat totally enthralled by the music that semed to him, and to me, to be heavenly.

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