Isabel Merton is a renowned concert pianist whose performances are marked by arare responsiveness to the complexities of her art and its intensities offeeling. ... » 

Isabel Merton is a renowned concert pianist whose performances are marked by arare responsiveness to the complexities of her art and its intensities offeeling. At the height of her career she feels increasingly torn between thecompelling musical realm she deeply inhabits and her fragmented itinerantartists life with its frequent flights anonymous hotels and briefarbitrary encounters. Away from her New York home on a European tour Isabelmeets a political exile from a wartorn country a man driven by a ranklingsense of injustice and a powerful desire to vindicate his cause and avenge hispeople. As their paths cross in several cities they are drawn to each otherboth by their differences and their seemingly parallel passionsuntil amenacing incident throws her into a creative crisis and forces her toreevaluate his actions and her own motives. In this story of contemporary loveand conflict Hoffman illuminates the currents and undercurrents of our timeas she explores the luminous and dark faces of romanticism and those perennialhuman yearnings frustrations and moral choices that can lead todestructiveness or the richest art. «