{"product_id":"fugitive-by-simon-tedeschi-9780645247961","title":"Fugitive","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA beautiful work of the imagination, straddling history, memory, trauma and testimony.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1917, a young composer writes a suite of twenty pieces for piano. Each pass by like a gust of wind. They are short, violent and strange—the music of another world. In 1938, a young Jewish family flees Italy for Sydney, Australia. In 1942, another family, this time Polish, is nearly destroyed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHalf a century later, a young man begins to understand the role the young composer's strange visions have played in everything that came before him and all that has come to be.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn his first book, Simon Tedeschi applies elements—from history, memory and the body of the musician—to make a remarkable work of imagination and fractal beauty. He straddles the borders of poetry and prose, fiction and fact, trauma and testimony. \u003cem\u003eFugitive\u003c\/em\u003e is filled with what Russian poet Konstantin Balmont called 'the fickle play of rainbows'.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46371986178284,"sku":"9780645247961","price":34.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/19925183482417.jpg?v=1744813507","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/fugitive-by-simon-tedeschi-9780645247961","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}