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"…Three Muses captivates the reader from the first page to the last.”—Paul Harding, Pulitzer Prize winning author of Tinkers and Enon

Three Muses is a love story that enthralls: a tale of Holocaust survival venturing through memory, trauma, and identity, while raising the curtain on the unforgiving discipline of ballet. In post-WWII New York, John Curtin suffers lasting damage from having been forced to sing for the concentration camp kommandant who murdered his family. John trains to be a psychiatrist, struggling to wrest his life from his terror of music and his past. Katya Symanova climbs the arduous path to Prima Ballerina of the New York State Ballet, becoming enmeshed in an abusive relationship with her choreographer, who makes Katya a star but controls her life. When John receives a ticket to attend a ballet featuring Katya Symanova, a spell is cast. As John and Katya follow circuitous paths to one another, fear and promise rise in equal measure. Song, Discipline, and Memory weave their way through love and loss, heartbreak and triumph.

©2022 Martha Anne Toll (P)2022 Spotify Audiobooks 20th Century Fiction Historical Fiction Jewish World Literature New York Heartfelt
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What a beautiful story this is, gripping, tragic, life-affirming. Very cleverly structured and written in beautiful prose, the life stories of the two main characters are enthralling, and the complex workings of trauma, memory and art in human life explored and exquisitely rendered. I did not care much for the narrator, in fact I almost gave up at the start as I found the drawling, nasal voice very grating and it did rather spoil the stylistic effect of the novel for me. The foreign words and phrases, too, although well rehearsed, sounded very stilted and unnatural. She did ok on the different voices though.

Beautiful!

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