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Also by Michèle Halberstadt:

The Pianist In The Dark, July 2011
Hardcover

The Pianist In The Dark
Michèle Halberstadt

Pegasus Books
July 2011
On Sale: July 15, 2011
Featuring: Maria-Theresa von Paradis
256 pages
ISBN: 1605981184
EAN: 9781605981185
Hardcover
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Women's Fiction Historical

Maria-Theresa von Paradis, the only daughter of the secretary of the empress of Austria, was an exceptionally gifted child. By the age of seventeen, she was a full-fledged virtuoso, playing for the royal family, acclaimed for her beauty and talent . . . and because she was blind. Her father, unable to accept her condition despite her soaring musical gifts, enlists the help of Franz Anton Mesmer, the forerunner of the modern practice of hypnotism, where Maria-Theresa discovers the passions and emotions from which her blindness had previously protected her. In the tradition of Sleeping with Schubert and The Cellist of Sarajevo, the novel is moving portrait of courage, loss, the elation of first love-and the pain of lost innocence.

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