Alto saxophonist Hasek dreams of escaping from Czechoslovakia to duet with Norwegian horn player Ankers.
Gabriela, a pianist and composer, turns tricks to survive in Ceausescu's Bucharest. A Brighton surgeon performs transplants with suspiciously obtained organs, while Ian, a budding Buddy Rich, risks losing his job to expose him. In the powder keg of the Balkans, ethnic battles rage as viscera are turned into hard cash, and remote Albania is the setting for the ultimate rising of the dispossessed.
Europe in 1989 is a world of collective dreams, intoxicating jazz and magical jaunts into the landscape of Belgian surrealist Paul Delvaux. Gabriela, Ankers and Ian all share the same dreams of freedom, but will they ever get it together to play the same tune?
'An extraordinary book, completely out of the shallows of the fashionable mainstream; a book, in fact, to dream to'
Brian Case, Time Out
'The book is written with a compulsive energy that makes you want to run to keep up'
James Laurenson, Observer
'A strong multi-layered novel'
Peter Bacon, Birmingham Post
'Highly original... To read the novel is to pass through a gallery of literary spectacle'
Natalia Nowakowska, Chartist
'Vivid and at times beautiful'
Sam Wollaston, Guardian
'The spirit of solidarity that infuses this novel lingers on as a welcome and much-needed optimism'
Liz Heron, Times Educational Supplement
:: Saturday, March 02, 2002 ::
Saxophone Dreams is currently out of print. However, the
author has a very limited number of copies available for sale.
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