Wanderer: A Novel

Authors: Léon, Sarah
Publisher: Other Press
BISAC/Subject: FIC019000, FIC043000, FIC011000
ISBN: 9781590519264, Related ISBNs: 1590519256, 1590519264, 9781590519257, 9781590519264
Classification: Fiction
Number of pages: 176,
Audience: General/trade
Synopsis: Named a Best Book of the Year by The Advocate

An exceptional debut novel that explores the stifled, unspoken feelings of a music teacher and his former student, and the damage done by their years of silence


Hermin, a composer and instructor, leads a secluded life near the Bourbonnais Mountains in France, composing an homage to Schubert. On a bitter January night, this studious peace is broken when his former pupil, Lenny, a piano prodigy, mysteriously knocks at his door. The two men must confront the ghosts of their past, somewhere between musical harmony, erotic tension, and revelation.

Wanderer, echoing Schubert's recurring theme, is a novel of rare delicacy, a twilight adagio, a Winterreise, and a subtle ode to German Romanticism.
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