When Diane is to the place where her brother Truman tragically lost his life, she sees him. Truman waves to her one last time, the seventeen year old Andi sees the sparkle in his eyes. He looks so real, it is true. She runs into the street, want to hug him and stops. Around them the sounds of squealing tires, brake and sharp. A woman rushes up to her crying, grabs the girl and shake her ...
She is in a trance - acting like - and all that remains of her brother she is the key, which she wears around his neck since his death. Andi does not care! Only the music they saved from the last step. In the middle of Brooklyn she kneels and takes her guitar out of a suitcase and plays until the fingers from the cold freeze - until she forgets the pain and dripping blood on the strings
Her mother Marianne is an artist. and seeps in their grief. Throughout the house, pictures of Truman. But the clear blue of his eyes do not even get thither Vinci, but she continued to paint and not registered to him. Letters are not open and not even the renowned St. Anselm School.
By submitting the final work could Miss Diandra Xenia Alpers, so Andi's full name, nor establish the conclusion. Selfsame letter received by the way also Andi's father, the renowned scientist award of the Nobel Prize in the field of genetic research. He comes to Brooklyn and what is it opens up there shocked him. Ado, he decides against the wishes of his daughter, Marianne in a psychiatric Hospital ward and Andi to take with him to Paris.
Once in Paris, it goes into the no man's land to Guillaume Lenôtre, an old friend and former fellow student of the Father, the one and only indulges the French Revolution. The courtyard is full of horse troughs, statues and stuff. The ground floor is like a factory. Boxes standing around everywhere, stacked to the ceiling. On the second floor, are living the "ghost of the old Paris", it says 'G'.
As Guillaume Andi learns that she write her thesis, her chosen subject, a contemporary of the French Revolution wants, he will hear everything. It's about the infamous composer Malherbeau. Quickly, he digs out a few books that could be useful Andi.
day, Andi tries to open an old guitar case, which can be opened only with difficulty. Ultimately, they sought it with Truman's key. It does nothing. She wants to give up almost as the key as if by magic, turns on its own. The lid opened and a sweet scent of clove approaches her.
found in a secret compartment to include a diary. On the first pages of a cry for help of the girl Alexandrine, the events has documented in the old Paris. This is the beginning of their journey to the 18th Century. Andi also learns about a fate similar to her very
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gushing words of enthusiasm out of me and I can only restrain hard to not to reveal too much. What is the reader expected a spider web of family, fate and the events of the revolutionary Paris in the 18th Century, in which open up many parallels to the particular person. Everything is woven together skillfully. It's as if you were in the middle of the action! You feel like Andi, when she reads the diary. You listen to their thoughts. I see the joy the pain, the sorrow and the anger! I listen to classical music, makes me dream, the uprisings in the old Paris, the misery, fear and all the filth of makes me sad.
only criticism are typographical errors that made me at such a fantastic work very . displease
I sucked not on the line, they picked on me and I devoured the writing! The writing style and language of the author goes deep. The words - so full of feeling - that it intoxicated me.
After this book is certain one: Read this book: You want more
What remains is to say to me!
5 stars out of 5 stars
I cordially thank vorablesen.de and the PENDO Publisher for providing this review copy.
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