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Devils and Saints

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Devils and Saints
14.99 €
The main character Joe (short for Joseph) is an old man who divinely performs Beethoven on the piano in public places. We meet him at the train station and at the airport. He squanders his talent as a great pianist by reducing it to the level of a street musician. Every day Joe plays in the midst of crowds of indifferent travelers. Perhaps he's waiting for someone. But who and why? "Devils and Saints" is a long story of orphanhood, love, pain and loss that began more than half a century ago, in the late 1960s, in a remote place in southwestern France. When the protagonist was sixteen, his parents and sister were killed in a plane crash. The young man was sent to a religious boarding school in the Pyrenees, where he encountered brutality, strict discipline, injustice and loneliness. There he met similarly lonely abandoned teenagers. Life at the boarding school dragged on day after day, filled with routine monotonous activities, and its residents had to endure bad treatment - beatings, humiliation, and at the same time - the lack of any prospects. Sure, Joe made friends, but even they didn't help him find a new meaning in life. Until he met Rosa - the daughter of the main patron of the boarding school, the same age as Joe, who studied piano with him. Little by little between them broke out the first romantic feeling. Now the hero has a dream - to escape with his beloved away from this place. "Devils and Saints" - a poignant novel about broken fates and mangled childhood, about the multivalence and complexity of the world, where recent tormentors find a human face, about music and the power of art, which save the hero even in the most hopeless moments of life.
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