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Jan 1, 2002 · Norman Lebrecht's first novel The Song of Names won a Whitbread Award in 2003. His second, The Game of Opposites, was published in the US by Pantheon Books. A third is in preparation. A collection of Lebrecht columns will be published this year in China, the first such anthology by any western cultural writer.
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Jan 3, 2020 · It’s factually accurate, yet reductive, to call the elegiac new film “The Song of Names” a Holocaust story. The historical drama, which opened Friday, Jan. 3, and is based on a 2002 novel by cultural critic Norman Lebrecht, tells the story of a young Jewish violin prodigy from Warsaw, Dovidl Rapoport, from age 9 to 55.
Feb 10, 2004 · A deeply satisfying novel, both sensuously vivid and remarkably poignant. bookshelf. shop now. Norwegian novelist Jacobsen folds a quietly powerful coming-of-age story into a rendition of daily life on one of Norway’s rural islands a hundred years ago in a novel that was shortlisted for the 2017 Man Booker International Prize.
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About The Song of Names. Martin Simmonds’ father tells him, “Never trust a musician when he speaks about love.”. The advice comes too late. Martin already loves Dovidl Rapoport, an eerily gifted Polish violin prodigy whose parents left him in the Simmonds’s care before they perished in the Holocaust.
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Dec 23, 2019 · 'The Song of Names' In English, Yiddish, Hebrew and German with English subtitles Rated: PG-13, for some strong language, brief sexual material, thematic elements, and smoking.
Dec 18, 2007 · It is full of human folly and unlovely emotions. The moment when the meaning of the title is revealed is so heartstopping that I had to put the book down for a while and digest it all. There is also humor, musical and religious philosophy and a good dose of mystery. THE SONG OF NAMES won a Whitbread First Novel Award.
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In doing so he also evokes the fragile bubble of Jewish life in prewar London; the fearful carnival of the Blitz, and the gray new world that emerged from its ashes. Bristling with ideas, lambent with feeling, The Song of Names is a masterful work of the imagination.
