Chris Cander: The Weight of a Piano
Bookworm
KCRW
4.5 • 606 Ratings
🗓️ 11 April 2019
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Chris Cander’s The Weight of a Piano explores characters with passionate attachments to things that have been lost.
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| 0:00.0 | Funds for Bookworm are provided in part by Lannin Foundation. |
| 0:03.8 | Boots! |
| 0:06.0 | Where would we be without books? |
| 0:12.0 | Where would we be without good? |
| 0:15.0 | No, Tzuberg. |
| 0:16.0 | It's a rhetorical question, sir. |
| 0:20.0 | But where would we be without books? |
| 0:23.6 | From KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Michael Silverblatt. |
| 0:29.2 | This is Bookworm, and today my guest is Chris Kander. |
| 0:34.1 | She's the author of a novel called The Weight of a Piano, and it's from Pnopf. |
| 0:40.3 | Now, as I read this book, I became more and more drawn into its passion. |
| 0:50.3 | It's a passionate book. |
| 0:53.3 | A piano travels through a couple of generations of owners. |
| 1:02.2 | What's the name of the piano makers? |
| 1:05.0 | A Blutner. |
| 1:06.2 | And what's special about that piano? |
| 1:10.3 | Everything is special about a Blutner piano. |
| 1:12.6 | When I was deciding which kind of piano to put in this book, |
| 1:18.6 | I was led to a woman in Los Angeles, who is a dealer of Blutner pianos. |
| 1:26.6 | And I discovered that they have what is called |
| 1:29.7 | a peerless golden tone |
| 1:31.3 | and are very special, |
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