Wonderful feels like this / Sara Lövestam
- Bib ID:
- 7328341
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Lövestam, Sara, 1980-, author
- Uniform Title:
- Hjärta av Jazz. English
- Description:
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- Crows Nest, NSW : Allen & Unwin, 2017
- 305 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBN:
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- 9781760292065 (paperback)
- 1760292060 (paperback)
- Summary:
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When a bullied teenager bonds with an 89-year-old jazz musician a beautiful friendship begins in a novel that celebrates the power of music across generations.
The Elegance of the Hedgehog meets The Perks of Being a Wallflower in this novel celebrating being a little bit odd, finding your people, and the power of music to connect us...For Steffi, going to school everyday is an exercise in survival. She's never fit in with any of the groups at school, and she's viciously teased by the other girls in her class. The only way she escapes is through her music - especially jazz music...When Steffi hears her favorite jazz song playing through an open window of a retirement home on her walk home from school, she decides to go in and introduce herself. The old man playing her favorite song is Alvar. When Alvar was a teenager in World War II Sweden, he dreamed of being in a real jazz band. Then and now, Alvar's escape is music - especially jazz music...Through their unconventional friendship, Steffi comes to realise that she won't always feel alone. She can go to music school in Stockholm. She can be a real musician. She can be a jitterbug, just like Alvar...But how can Steffi convince her parents to let her go to Stockholm to audition? And how it that Steffi's school, the retirement home, the music, and even Steffi's worst bully are somehow all connected to Alvar? Can it be that the people least like us are the ones we need to help us tell our own stories?..
- Notes:
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- Originally published in 2013 in Swedish as Hjärta av Jazz.
- Translated from the Swedish.
- Subject:
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- Other authors/contributors:
- Wideburg, Laura A, translator
- Copyright Information:
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- Hjärta av Jazz © Sara Lövestam, 2013.
- English translation copyright © Laura Wideburg, 2017.
- Copyright:
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- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2017
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