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The spellbinding memoir of a violin virtuoso who loses the instrument that had defined her both on stage and off—and who discovers, beyond the violin, the music of her own voice.
At seven years old Min Kym was a prodigy, the youngest ever student at the famed Purcell School of Music. At eleven she won her first international prize. And at twenty-one, she found "the one," the violin that would transform her life: a rare 1696 Stradivarius. Her career soared. She recorded the Brahms concerto and a world tour was planned.
Then, in a London café, her violin was stolen. She felt as though she had lost her soulmate, and with it her sense of who she was. Overnight, she became unable to play or function, stunned into silence.
In this lucid and transfixing memoir, Min reckons with the space left by her violin's absence. She sees with new eyes the isolation of her life as a prodigy; her combustible relationships with teachers; and her navigation of...