Saving Mozart

Raphael Jerusalmy's debut novel takes the form of the journal of Otto J. Steiner, a former music critic of Jewish descent suffering from tuberculosis in a Salzburg sanatorium in 1939. Isolated in the gloomy sanatorium, Steiner finds solace in music. When he learns that the annual Mozart festival is to be turned into a celebration of the Anschluss to be attended by Hitler himself, he is horrified, but is presented with the opportunity to fight back. Steiner formulates a plan to save Mozart that could dramatically change the course of the war.