The Secret Piano
From Mao's Labor Camps to Bach's Goldberg Variations
by Xiao-Mei Zhu
316 pages· 2012· ISBN 9781611090772
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Recounts the experiences of the author, a musical prodigy who started playing piano at the age of three, during China's Cultural Revolution which saw the closure of art schools and the deportation of Zhu and her family.
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