Sonata for Miriam

by Linda Olsson

A middle-aged man living on Auckland's Waiheke Island recalls vividly the sudden death of his daughter Miriam. Grief silenced Adam at the time, but now he decides to break the silence and explore the secrets of the past. The search becomes a tribute to his daughter, and takes Adam from New Zealand to Poland. There he finds the truth about his past, but now he must live with it. On an island off the rocky coast of Sweden he re-connects with the love of his life.
Sonata for Miriam is a heartbreaking tale of a man's search for his past, about the exposure of secrets that have been hidden for too long, and about the importance of talking about the most vital and the most painful in life. But more than anything it is a novel about love. Rich and satisfying, Sonata for Miriam will stay with the reader long after they have put it down.

Linda Olsson's first novel, Let Me Sing You Gentle Songs, was an international hit. Hundreds of thousands of copies have sold in the US and Europe, especially in Sweden, where Linda is now a major literary figure. In NZ it has sold nearly 8000 copies. Sonata for Miriam is being published around the world, including by Penguin in the US, and similar success is expected.

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Linda Olsson was born in Stockholm, Sweden in 1948. She graduated from the University of Stockholm with a degree in law and worked in law and finance till she left Sweden in 1986. What was intended as a three years posting to Nairobi, Kenya then became a meandering tour of the world with stops in Singapore, the UK and Japan, until she settled in New Zealand with her family. She now divides her time between Auckland, New Zealand and Sweden. In 2003 she won the prestigious Sunday Star-Times Short Story Competition. Her first novel Let Me Sing You Gentle Songs was published in New Zealand in 2005, and subsequently became an international success.