Maîtres sonneurs
In the twilight hills of Berry and Bourbonnais, at the end of the eighteenth century, the bagpipes are dying. Tiennet, a young cornemuseux, tells his story across thirty-one winter evenings: of his love for his cousin Brulette, of his rivalry with Joseph, the orphan who competition made into both brother and enemy, and of the ancient music that binds his village together. George Sand constructs a pastoral elegy for a world about to vanish, the old rhythms of rural life, the secret language of traditional musicians, the tender cruelties of first love, all poised on the edge of a revolution that will sweep these people and their customs into history's current. This is Sand at her most lyrical: a novel where a single tune carries the weight of an entire civilization, and where the heart's small dishonesties matter as much as the great forces reshaping France.
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Ezwa, Nadine Eckert-Boulet, Aldor, Emy +4 more
