Gone
A Girl, a Violin, a Life Unstrung
New York : Crown, [2017]
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: 227 pages ; 22 cm
At seven years old Min Kym was a prodigy, the youngest ever student at the famed Purcell School of Music. At eleven she won her first international prize. And at twenty-one, she found "the one," the violin that would transform her life: a rare 1696 Stradivarius. Her career soared. She recorded the Brahms concerto and a world tour was planned. Then, in a London caf©♭, her violin was stolen. Overnight she became unable to play or function, stunned into silence. In this memoir, Kym sees with new eyes the isolation and crushing expectations of life as a child prodigy; her relationships with teachers and with a domineering boyfriend; and her navigation of the worlds of her traditional Korean family and her music-- and her rediscovery of her voice and herself.
ISBN:
9780451496072
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BIOGRAPHY Kym, Min | Wheatley (Shandon) | Biography | In |