Maestro

Against the backdrop of Darwin, that small, tropical hothouse of a port, half-outback, half-oriental, lying at the tip of northern Australia, a young and newly arrived southerner encounters the 'maestro', a Viennese refugee with a shadowed past. the occasion is a piano lesson, the first of many...

Audience
young adult
Length
short · 149 pages

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