Synopsis
FROM THE MAN BOOKER SHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF HARVEST
'The Melody takes its place among his finest [novels] . . . an ecological fable for modern times' Guardian
'Seductively atmospheric . . . deeply moving' Daily Mail
'Brilliant' Observer
Alfred Busi, famed in his town for his music and songs, is mourning the recent death of his wife and quietly living out his days in...
Details
08 February 2018493 minutes
Timothy Bentinck
9781509883738Imprint: Macmillan Digital Audio
Reviews
Strange, unsettling, brilliant - everything you'd expect from one of our most original and inventive novelistsObserver
This could have been a straightforward political allegory about man's inhumanity to man . . . but Crace's seductively atmospheric novel, suffused as it is with archetypes and the stuff of dreams, is much richer, slyer and more mysterious. It's an elegy, too - for lost love, youth and talent - and deeply movingDaily Mail
The Melody takes its place among his finest [novels] . . . grippingly symbolic and intensely real . . . an ecological fable for modern timesGuardian
The Melody is at its most poignant on the subject of growing old . . . every sentence is packed with Crace's characteristic lyricism . . . Anybody who reads The Melody will find plenty to admire and chew onThe Times
