Guest Conductor; A brooding composer, awash in family mysteries. From: The Washington Post | Date: February 22, 2004| Author: Reviewed by Eugenia Zukerman | Copyright 2004 The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post.Copyright information

THE CELLO PLAYER

By Michael Kruger. Translated from the German by

Andrew Shields. Harcourt. 200 pp. $23.

If your Weltanschauung leans toward the jaded, the ambivalent and the unresolved, then you may well admire The Cello Player, by the German poet-novelist-publisher Michael Kruger. It is a story about a disillusioned, middle-aged, avant-garde German composer who resides in Munich and makes his living writing theme songs for TV shows. Suddenly visited by Judit, a 20-yea...

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