
One of the finest debut novels in years (Colum McCann) features a 30-year-old conductor making his comeback in a Germany on the verge of reunification.

In this daring first novel of political, sexual, and artistic awakening, a young symphony conductor travels to Germany in the autumn of 1989, where he falls in love with a recent East German defector, and has a brutal encounter with the prewar conductor who becomes his great...