555 by Hélène Gestern

 555 by Hélène Gestern

Grand Priz RTL 2022 is an unputtable down book, mysterious, built richly with precious and fascinating descritions. 

The story involves a musician, Domenico Scarlatti who was born in 1685 and was specialized in sonates. He lived various years in Spain as well building good relationship at court. His life was pretty fertile artistically and became famous for his sonates. 

The book is articolated in 13 sections and in every section there are little chapters describing the existences of the five main characters of this book:

Gregory Coblence, cabinet-maker, Giancarlo Albizon an associate, Manig Terzian a musician, Joris De Jonghe, a rich collector, Rodolphe Luzin-Farge, musicologist, biographer of Scarlatti. 

The story starts when it is found somewhere an old partition that could be the one still unknown.

But, one day the sonata disappears. Every single character of this book could have stolen this partition for the most obvious reasons. Old, precious, an unique piece....

A lot of suspects, a lot of possibilities are taken in consideration...At the end of the book, in a long letter, the explanation.

Hélène Gestern is a passionate of stories where everything starts from an old object in great to reveal a past still unknown. Another masterpiece!

Highly recommended book.

I thank L'Arlea for the physical copy of the book.

Anna Maria Polidori