by Michael Morpurgo · Walker Books Ltd · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781406312201
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«The Mozart Question» is Michael Morpurgo's children's historical fiction novel, published by Walker Books Ltd in paperback (80 pages, in English).
A journalist travels to Venice to interview the celebrated violinist Paolo Levi, on the sole condition that she not ask him the «Mozart question». It is the musician himself who decides to tell the truth: the story of his parents, Jewish prisoners of war during World War II, forced to play Mozart concerts to survive.
English edition published on November 3, 2008, with illustrations by Michael Foreman. ISBN 9781406312201.
A historical fiction tale aimed at readers aged 9 to 11, about the memory of war and music as a means of survival.
Sir Michael Andrew Bridge Morpurgo is an English book author, poet, playwright, and librettist who is known best for children's novels such as War Horse (1982). His work is noted for its "magical storytelling", for recurring themes such as the triumph of an outsider or survival, for characters' relationships with nature, and for vivid settings such as the Cornish coast or the trenches of the First World War. Morpurgo was the third Children's Laureate, from 2003 to 2005, and is President of BookTrust, a children's reading charity.
