Book description
The first novel from one of New Zealand's prize-winning, emerging
writers Classical is karaoke - just playing covers of dead people's
music - or so Wellingtonian Rebecca concluded at her London
conservatorium. She's sabotaged her scholarship there, but wants to keep
playing the cello, like her grandmother, Klara. Now unmoored from her
classical training, she's in New York City, where Klara grew up. As
Rebecca investigates her Jewish-refugee heritage, she starts to compose
her own songs, but has to contend with diabetes and other burning
issues: is she with the right man, or should she swap stability for
lust? And how much longer can she live with a neurotic, junk-scavenging
flatmate, on the verge of murdering another zebra fish? Sarah Laing
was born in Urbana-Champaign in 1973, and grew up in Palmerston North.
She studied at Victoria University, and worked as a graphic designer in
Wellington and New York City. She won the Sunday Star-Times Short Story
Competition in 2006 and her first short story collection, Coming Up
Roses, was published in 2007.
