Excerpt from The Gustav Sonata by Rose Tremain, plus links to reviews, author biography & more

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The Gustav Sonata by Rose Tremain

The Gustav Sonata

by Rose Tremain
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  • Sep 27, 2016, 256 pages
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  • Sep 2017, 256 pages
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Gustav lay in his bed at night and thought about what might happen if Switzerland were harmed. He wondered if Matzlingen would be turned to rubble and whether he would find himself all alone, like the white dog in the picture.

Excerpted from The Gustav Sonata by Rose Tremain. Copyright © 2016 by Rose Tremain. Used with permission of the publisher, W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. All rights reserved.

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