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| Book: | The Soloist |
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| Author: | Mark Salzman |
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| Publisher: | Vintage |
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As a child, Renne showed promise of becoming one of the world’s greatest cellists. Now, years later, his life suddenly is altered by two events: he becomes a juror in a murder trial for the brutal killing of a Buddhist monk, and he takes on as a pupil a Korean boy whose brilliant musicianship reminds him of his own past.