“The main thing that interests me about this story is the problem of how you cope with the gap between your life as you imagine it should be and as it really is, and I think all of us cope with that every day,” Salzman says. Into Reinhart’s circumscribed world enter several new elements: a withdrawn 9-year-old Korean student who himself might be a cello prodigy jury duty on the trial of an unstable young man accused of murdering his Zen Buddhism teacher and a sexy, married female co-juror who wouldn’t mind making beautiful music with the virginal cellist. He is also, improbably for modern fiction, a thirtysomething virgin whose emotional reserve and self-doubt prevent him from developing relationships with women. Formerly world famous, he now earns a living by teaching cello at a California university. Sundheimer, 35, is a one-time child prodigy who has lost his ability to play the cello on stage.
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