Review
"Zoran Zivkovic is revealed here as one of the more interesting voices in contemporary speculative fiction." —Locus Magazine
"Though it is too soon to crown [Zoran Zivkovic] the new Borges, Seven Touches of Music makes him a leading candidate." —The New York Times Book Review
"There is something haunting about these tales...Meditations, each story possesses the whispered longing and apprehension of a prayer." —SF Site
"A showpiece; beautifully presented...High-quality fabulist fiction [that] would make a wonderful gift for lovers of speculative literature or music." —HorrorScope
"Zivkovic has that gift of effortless prose that envelops you as it drives daggers into your perception of the world." —The Agony Column
"Reading this interesting collection is like sipping wine and swirling it around to get its true taste. Poignant and chilling." —Heartland Reviews
"Spare and understated, superbly crafted and emotionally charged—the simplest story elements bear a heavy emotional weight." —Fantastic Reviews
"A concern with the personal nature of knowledge and experience pervades each story of this [sparse and graceful] collection." —Fantasy Book Spot
Product Description
This experimental mosaic novel by a Serbian author—who is often compared to such luminaries as Italo Calvino, Franz Kafka, and Jorge Luis Borges—consists of seven wispily-connected stories about unexpected encounters with music. A teacher of autistic students, a librarian, the purchaser of a music box, an elderly woman at a train station, a scientist-turned-painter, a dying professor, and a violin-maker's apprentice seem deceptively ordinary until sudden shifts in time or place thrust them into a realm where all the conventional ways of appreciating music seem not to apply.
About the Author
Zoran Zivkovic is the author of The Book/The Author, The Fourth Circle, and The Library and is the editor of the anthology Leviathan Three. He is the recipient of the 2003 World Fantasy Award, and his work has been published in 11 countries, produced for television, and optioned for film.
