Fugitive

<h3>A beautiful work of the imagination straddling history memory trauma and testimony</h3><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>In 1917 a young composer writes a suite of twenty pieces for piano. Each pass by like a gust of wind. They are short violent and strange - the music of another world. In 1938 a young Jewish family flees Italy for Sydney Australia. In 1942 another family this time Polish is nearly destroyed. Half a century later a young man begins to understand the role the young composer's strange visions have played in everything that came before him and all that has come to be.In his first book Simon Tedeschi applies elements - from history memory and the body of the musician - to make a remarkable work of imagination and fractal beauty. He straddles the borders of poetry and prose fiction and fact trauma and testimony. </span><em style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Fugitive</em><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)> is filled with what Russian poet Konstantin Balmont called 'the fickle play of rainbows'.</span></p>