Early on in the morning of my interview, I woke up and saw my dead sister
I took this from the Castricum bookcrossingmeetup because of the title (I am a traveling hornplayer), but in the end it is just a lovely book. It has a lovely structure. The six chapters are named after six parts of Die Schöne Müllerin by Schubert. The favourite parts of Lydia, the student who has to write an essay about them which starts the story, and the part the father of Barbara trapido sang (she says so in an intro). The rythm of the three protagonists who tell the story, is 1, 2, 3, 3, 2, 1. The characters are just fun, who are connected by a lot of coincidences, but they are plated up in such a way that it is really funny and you accept it. It is a story about loss, saddness and dysfunctional families, but it never becomes heavy, and I laughed a lot during reading.
And now I have read it, it will go wandering the globe, and be read, again, and again and again.
The picture is from a page of the book, about Bach, and rythm in sentences and words and found rather amusing.
