by Maria Angels Anglada · Corsair · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781849019811
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«The Auschwitz Violin» is the historical novel by Maria Àngels Anglada, published by Corsair in paperback (131 pages, in English).
An elderly woman plays an exceptional-sounding violin in Kraków; when a musician asks, she tells her story. In Auschwitz, Daniel, a violin maker before the war, becomes the center of a bet between the camp commandant and the doctor: build a violin within a deadline or be handed over to the torturer.
This English edition, translated by Martha Tennent, came out in 2011; the original Catalan appeared in 1983 as El violí d'Auschwitz.
For readers of historical fiction about the Holocaust, with an interest in music and art's resistance to dehumanization.
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.
