Saving Mozart

This is the story of a musical assassination. Summer 1939, in the wake of the Anschluss, Otto J. Steiner marks his days in a Salzburg sanatorium as History bares its fangs outside.

Austrian, Jewish (to some extent), utterly alone, he clings only to music—and tuberculosis devours him as relentlessly as the humiliation of illness and the privations that push him to the margins of the world. A dissonant realm to his ears as a music lover, an existential lapse in taste for this free spirit, a privileged and unwilling witness to the breakdown of a certain vision of humanity.

Everything seems decided, when an unexpected event brings him to the brink of altering the century. But if there was nothing left to save—except Mozart?

A debut novel fiercely subversive, driven by chilling wit, precise cruelty, and mischievous gravity.