Rodrigo Guedes de Carvalho - The Hotel Pianist

"The Hotel Piano Player" transports us with a melody. It is an entrance to a world governed by the language of music, by its strength and beauty, present in the rhythm of each sentence, of each rigorously measured paragraph. A layered book, it intersects different planes, different stories permeated by the redemptive power of music "that enters and tears," the loneliness, the pain and the emptiness of the people who inhabit these pages.

With a vast subtext, the density of the characters is fraught with mysteries that captivate us with successive questions. There's a bit of us in all of them. There's a lot of us in this delve into the depths of the human soul. It's a novel that can be read and listened to, one that keeps all the senses alert. A musical score, with varying tempos, that ultimately intersect in the unpredictable vertigo of a true psychological thriller. And then there's the pianist...