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Maxence Fermine

The Black Violin

By Maxence Fermine - By tr. from the French by Chris Mulhern - Published 2003

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At age five, Johannes Karelsky hears a gypsy violinist and quickly becomes a musical prodigy as a result. Being drafted into Napoleon’s ...Read Review

Snow

By Maxence Fermine - Published 2001 Published 2003

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Literary

This slender volume concerns the life of Yuko Akita, who lives with his father in Hokkaido, Japan. It’s the spring of 1884, and ...Read Review

Maxence Fermine

The Black Violin

Snow

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