Carefully researched and explosively passionate, this story of forbidden love and unmet potential is .
for anyone who's ever felt the ineffable power of music.
-- Aja Gabel, author of The Ensemble The Piano Student is a novel about regret, secrecy, and music, involving an affair between one of the 20th century's most celebrated pianists, Vladimir Horowitz, and his young male student, Nico Kaufmann, in the late 1930s.
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