
Pages of a weathered original sonata manuscript
- the gift of a Czech immigrant living in Queens
- come into the hands of Meta Taverner a young musicologist whose concert piano career was cut short by an injury The gift comes with the request that Meta find the manuscript's true owner
- a Prague friend the old woman has not heard from since the Second World War forced them apart
- & to make the three-part sonata whole again Leaving New York behind for the land of Dvorak & Kafka Meta sets out on an unforgettable search to locate the remaining movements of the sonata & uncover a story that has influenced the course of many lives even as it becomes clear that she isn't the only one seeking the music's secrets