A romance novel with heart and chopin

If roses are just pralines and good chocolates are too expensive anyway, then say it with Chopin. This is such a tip from the trick moth box of the talented gentlemen. A advice for people who prefer to express feelings on the keys of a concert wing instead of saying a wrong word. And exactly this plate The author Takis Würger now lays in his new novel: Frédéric Chopins piano concert No. 1, op. 11 in E minor. This is the work that the young hero plays again and again in the love story « for Polina » – and only alone, you suspect it for Polina.

Takis Würger presents a musical romance novel with “For Polina”

In his novel debut « The Club », Takis Würger wrote About young elite students who polish their faces in the boxing ring at the sports duel Oxford against Cambridge. In « Stella » he caught the true story of a Jew that spied on the Gestapo of the Nazis, in a form of novel and the criticism quickly promoted him into the scandal author section. In his new novel, Taki's Würger is now trying to compose his own “for Elise” and calls the book “For Polina”. He succeeds lovingly and so smoothly that when reading the keys you slide and sometimes almost afraid you have to be slipped into kitsch.

The overture, a fairy tale: there were two children who grew up without fathers. The one child is called Hannes and has a lightning, beautiful and besieged mother named Fritzi. With the son from a unique affair, she is looking for shelter-and finds him in a Tweed-Sako at a cropped writer, he lets her move into his enchanted villa in the forest. A crispy house idyll in the moor off Hanover. The other child is called Polina and comes on the same day, in the same hospital as Hannes and her mother allies with his. Polina and mother Günes, two temperament heads with Turkish roots, become a permanent guest in this sloping flat share: Together the shared apartment nibbles the harvested rhubarb, Fritzi does forestry work, Polina is done on the carpet in the salon and chatted on the always silent, listening, hearing Hannes. Beautiful, good life in a semicine.

« For Polina » tells of a key god who suffers from love

The view through Hannes's eyes is only more beautiful when he meets Polina, because straps draw from the full of romance: « A goddess with black, short hair » is polina for the boy. « Hannes was a little dizzy all day anyway, because Polina was wearing the hair openly open and whenever she moved, a hint of peach gone to him. » Hannes, the wordless, finally brings courage and plays his chopine on the old, Klepprien – yes of course it is old and Kleprig. And soon also the melody that sounds like Polina, breathes Polina, embodied Polina. Because Hannes is a young key godwundermozart who has his own melodies in his head and fingers. A tapy, lovable love without words and deeds arises between the two until life drives happiness apart: first it is other boys who convince courageous flirting and polina. Then it is the search for her father who drives Polina out into the world. Homeless Polina, homeless Hannes – the boy loses his last stop in life through a stroke of fate, in the form of a tree that falls in the forest where he shouldn't fall.

Vigilanted women, helpless men, Würger compares his characters to each other, in merciless, pointed opposition to the cliché. Hannes never wants to play the piano again, but takes on a job as a piano transport for helplessness. He drags the instruments across Hamburg and with every step only sounds in his head: Polina. The perfect. Although all women, even the ugly, are still beautifully perfect – he learns from his best piano tractor friend. The gentlemen? Are ramponized. The nice hero Hannes can squeeze his intervertebral discs out of the vertebrae in the job. It even loses a finger between the stairway and wing edge. His boss, Mr. Blau, can be ugly and lovable at the same time, with erectile problems and bald head, but hair in the steam. The women are almost all dreams of dreams and rescuers: Hannes finds approaches of consolation with a blonde, fragrant lady made of good Hamburg house. The figure remains a pale marginal note next to the mothers and next to the great love. Polina remains flawless to the finest, ideal placed flaw. She is a kind of fairy Ronja robber daughter with inexplicable romantic love for oriental carpets.

According to « Stella », Takis Würger presents a romantic story

Is there a sebum from the buttons? Romanticism only relaxes when Würger accelerates the plot. The poor miracle pianist plays in a self -forgotten, polina -filled moment again piano, in the middle of the street, during transport – and does not notice that the world is staring around him. People film it and share the video. Strangers will soon fall around the neck, alienated couples arise in new passion, forgotten friendships bloom again, and all because they hear Hannes playing the piano tractor in the YouTube clip. In these moments, the book unfolds a very nice joke without ridiculing the power of music. However, Würger seems serious about the fact that Hannes stays so dreamy and foreign to the world and thus puts a sometimes somewhat under -complex hero figure into the world. He has nothing so dark, his character only knows white buttons. Pure, correct C major, even if the mood sinks into Moll. He is a Mowgli without Instagram account that longs for the bog when he becomes the world star. Will Polina follow his melody and find him? That is the question that also has hardened readers held out until the final. In any case, « for Elise » was yesterday, Hannes now shares his own melodies with the world.

After Taki's owl with « Stella » put a scandal novel into the world, he calms down in « For Polina » with the greatest possible warmth. It is eager, sometimes almost overzealous, describes types of piano wood, wing types, stringing tools. But in addition to technical terms and tones, there are always sentences of beauty that release a sigh when reading, whether before emotion or from pure sugar shock. The book is already celebrated as a romance novel of the year – in any case it is a work with a loudly beating heart, with love and Frédéric Chopin.