Author: andromedaromanolax

In a near-future Japan, nurse Angelica cares for her elderly employer, Sayoko — but when a robot helper joins the household, the AI will force them to confront explosive secrets from the past… “Profoundly inquisitive and compelling” (Booklist starred review).

In a dusty, turn-of-the-century Catalan village, the bequest of a cello bow sets young Feliu Delargo on an unlikely path. When a local landowner’s wrath threatens his family, the Spanish bow leads Feliu to anarchist Barcelona, then on to the court in Madrid, where a music master’s daughter gives him his first lessons in the art of love. There he meets up with the charming and eccentric piano prodigy Justo Al-Cerraz and begins the lifelong friendship and rivalry that will orchestrate a tumultuous course for them both. As a war-torn world careens toward catastrophe, they make splendid music together and…