by Maria Àngels Anglada · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788483005989
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«El violí d'Auschwitz» is the novel by Maria Àngels Anglada, published by Edicions Bromera in paperback (128 pages).
An elderly violinist in Kraków shows her instrument and tells how it came into her hands. The story of Daniel, a violin maker imprisoned in Auschwitz, focuses on the cruel deal he accepts to save himself: building a violin within a deadline. Between memories and exhaustion, music becomes an act of resistance and dignity.
The novel was originally published in 1983 and the narrative interweaves real Nazi documentation.
For readers of historical fiction and stories about music and the Holocaust.
Maria Àngels Anglada was a Catalan poet and novelist. She was born in Vic, Spain, in 1920. She received a degree in Classical Philology at the University of Barcelona. Her first novel, Les Closes , won the 1978 Josep Pla Award. Her 1985 novel Sandàlies d'escuma won the Lletra d'Or Prize. She died in 1999.
