Ludwig Unger's life held such promise. His parents were artists and, from an early age, his own musical genius had marked him out for a stellar career in the world's concert halls. In his mother's imagination, Ludwig is already on the way to surpassing her most ambitious dreams for him. But in reality, and for now, he's playing in local cocktail bars and the two of them are living alone in a storm-lashed clifftop cottage in East Anglia. As the forceful winter seas bash away at the coastline, and Ludwig plunks away at the piano, he begins to tell a woman his story: a story of beauty and decay, of a child's faith and parental betrayal, and of the importance, in the end, of self-sacrifice.
Author Biography
Tommy Wieringa was born in Curacao in 1967 and grew up partly in the Netherlands, and partly in the tropics. He began his writing career with travel stories and journalism before turning to the novel. Wieringa has won numerous awards for his work, including Holland's Halewijn Prize for All About Tristan in 2002, and the Ferdinand Bordewijk Prize for Joe Speedboat in 2006. Both of these novels were also nominated for the AKO Literature Prize. His second novel, Little Caesar, was shortlisted for the IMPAC Award, and his most recent novel, These Are The Names, won Holland's Libris Literature Prize for 2013 and has sold over 200,000 copies across Europe.
