The Student Conductor
by Robert Ford
Age band: 18+
Looky Rating System: Violence 3/5, Love & Romance 5/5, Mental Health 0/5, Language 2/5, Substance Use 0/5, Fear / Horror 2/5, Fantasy / Supernatural 0/5, LGBTQ+ Representation 0/5.
Description
In this daring first novel of political, sexual and artistic awakening, a young symphony conductor travels to Germany in the autumn of 1989, where he falls in love with a recent East German defector, and has a brutal encounter with the prewar conductor who becomes his great life teacher.