Barbara KingsolverFiction · Literary Fiction·b. 1955
Partita
Synopsis
A married woman settled into a quiet farm-country life is shaken by a phone call from the lover of her conservatory years, who once knew her as an aspiring concert pianist. The novel moves between past and present as she weighs whether to reopen old wounds — of family loss, artistic ambition, and a love that once broke her.
Partita is Barbara Kingsolver's first novel since the Pulitzer-winning Demon Copperhead.
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Livia CableProtagonist
A married woman living in the farm country where she grew up; decades earlier, as the conservatory student Livia Bohusz, she was a pianist of extraordinary promise.