About the Book: Music Against the Night
'May well be the most perfectly constructed, moving, and beautiful novel Ive
ever read ANN PATCHETT
Acclaimed Pulitzer-Prize winner Yiyun Li, returns with a sweeping historical
epic, following two extraordinary musicians on the rise.
In Dublin, as the eighteenth century nears its end, a young musical virtuoso
comes of age. John Field is able to hear notes in the air, and his family
aspires for him to become the next Mozart. His talent takes him far to England,
France, and then Russia, where he becomes a famous pianist and composes dreamy
melodies that enchant the night air.