From a master storyteller & former Children's Laureate comes a moving story of a group of musicians who survived the Holocaust using the only weapon they had The author of the international phenomenon War Horse brings us a moving tale of secrets & survival bound together by the power of music When Lesley is sent to Venice to interview world-renowned violinist Paulo Levi on his fiftieth birthday she cannot believe her luck She is told that she can ask him anything at all
- except the Mozart question But it is Paulo himself who decides that the time has come for the truth to be told & so follows the story of his parents in a Jewish concentration camp forced to play Mozart violin concerti for the enemy; how they watched fellow Jews being led off to their deaths & knew that they were playing for their lives As the story unfolds the journalist begins to understand the full horror of war
- & how one group of musicians survived using the only weapon they had