Incidental Music

Perovic, Lydia

ISBN 10: 1926708814 / ISBN 13: 9781926708812

Published by Inanna Publications, 2012

About this Item

Flat signed by author on half-title page. Minor tip wear. A Good Read ships from Toronto and Niagara Falls, NY - customers outside of North America please allow two to three weeks for delivery. ; Inanna Poetry and Fiction; 8.20 X 5.60 X 0.80 inches; 268 pages; Signed by Author.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Incidental Music
• Publisher: Inanna Publications
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1926708814
• ISBN 13: 9781926708812
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

Set in present-day Toronto, Incidental Music is a novel about three very different women. Petra is new to the city and eager to establish roots, but she keeps losing jobs, and finds it impossible to make friends or adopt a cause. Martha is prosperous, intellectual and compassionate, a happily married mother of grown children, who just might have built everything in her life on an impressive amount of self-deception. A retired opera singer, Romola left Hungary after the failed 1956 uprising, having played part in it as a member of a group of performing artists who called themselves Sektor 7. She is trying to cope with the haunting memories of an old love and her reasons for leaving the country, but her excursions to the past usually end mired in her long-ago operatic roles. The lives of the women overlap, but there is never any unison. Petra, Martha and Romola are like the three operatic voices--soprano, mezzo and alto--that sometimes pair up their melodic lines but never sing in complete accord.

Incidental Music visits the troubled and fascinating period of the Hungarian Revolution, within its larger context of the Communist post-war years in Eastern Europe, explores Toronto's heritage and urban development, takes a sober outsider view of Canadian society and politics, and last, but not least, revels in the beauty of the opera--all through the tumultuous and passionate love affairs of its main characters.

About the Author

Lydia Perović has written for many Canadian, UK and U.S.. media since 2001, including The Awl, n + 1, openDemocracy, Opera Canada, Xtra! and Toronto Standard. She grew up in the Communist Yugoslavia and moved to Nova Scotia in 1999. She has been living in Toronto since 2005.