<b>THE POPULAR MANGA AND ANIME DRAMA COMES TO LIFE IN WORDS!</b> <p/>There's not a competition that piano prodigy Arima hasn't won since he started playing. His renditions are matchless in their precision. When he's only eleven however his peerless fingers fall silent--right up there on stage. <p/> Exploring the shock of the incident and its aftermath from his friends and rivals' perspectives <i>A Six-Person Etude</i> accompanies the boy's halting efforts to pick himself up as an adolescent. Based on the hit series these prose chapters expand on the original but form a coherent and hard-hitting tale of its own.