Serenade.

Synopsis of Serenade.

«Serenade» is the novel by Leon de Winter, published by Diogenes Verlag in paperback (168 pages, in German).

A successful composer is forced to reassess his life when contact with his mother, a difficult and intractable woman, brings to light a family past marked by illness and loss. The novel explores memory, guilt and unresolved bonds between mother and son, and the price of personal success.

Novel originally published in Dutch in 1995; this German edition, translated by Hanni Ehlers, appeared in 1997.

For readers of contemporary European fiction interested in family dramas and in memory and the debts of the past.