Summary
Takis Wurger: For Polina
Everything he loved turned into silence. Only one melody refuses to die down. At the age of fourteen, Hannes Prager meets Polina and realizes for the first time that there are feelings that cannot be expressed. To show his love, the miraculously gifted boy composes a melody that touches the most tender strings of Polina's soul, because that melody becomes Polina herself: her tenderness, her secrets, her elusive world. And then, with one stroke of fate, everything disappears: his mother dies, music stops in him, and Polina disappears from his life. For years, the young man feels nothing but emptiness. He earns his living working for a moving company, sometimes carrying pianos from one life to another. But none of them are his. Until one day, quite unexpectedly, Hanes touches the earth - and gives music back to the world. Music expresses what words cannot. And his silent call echoes through Hamburg.
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