Two boys are growing up in wartime London. Martin is an only child, imprisoned in swottish loneliness. Then Dovidl enters his home, a refugee violinist from Warsaw. 'I am genius,' says Dovidl. 'You have information. Together we make good team.' His arrival brings merriment and love, mischief and menace. Blood-brothers, they roam the ruined city, finding tragedy and triumph, sex and crime. It is the time of their lives, their finest hour. Then Dovidl disappears, on the afternoon of his international debut. Martin is broken-hearted, his father near-bankrupted, the police dumbfounded. Where has he gone? How can a genius escape his date with destiny? How could he betray a brother? Martin is condemned to forty years of humdrum half-life until, one wintry night, an unexpected musical clue sets him on the trail to an astonishing act of self-discovery, and renewal.
- ISBN10 0755300955
- ISBN13 9780755300952
- Publish Date 3 February 2003 (first published 26 August 2002)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 17 June 2011
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Headline Publishing Group
- Imprint Headline Review
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 320
- Language English