Text/The Winter Moon is Getting Warmer
Some people say that there are three things that are most unbelievable in the world: a man's promise, the train is on time, and the waistband of the book.
So, I opened the waistband of "Burning Music" and saw this sentence: It is a music score, and it is also a spell. It is a novel that American Amazon readers want to burn after reading it.
When I received the book, I sat for three hours to read it. I couldn’t help but laugh. Sure enough, the book’s waistband was unbelievable.
After reading this book, I just want to put it away, collect my thoughts, and read it again.
Why on earth did my 3-year-old daughter kill her own cat?
Why did the daughter pierce her mother’s thigh with glass, and kept saying: hurt her mother;
Why did her daughter put toys on the stairs and deliberately made her mother fall?
This series of questions greatly aroused my curiosity, and I couldn’t help but read on.
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At the beginning of the story, a tattered and old sheet of music appeared, and her mother, Julia, accidentally bought it in an antique store.
Included in the score is a piece called Incendio (Italian for fire). I thought it was a passionate "fire", but later I found out it was a "fire" from the crematorium.
This is a simple waltz, but also a waltz for death.
The first half of the song is sad and poignant, with a soothing rhythm, but the second half becomes more complex, bringing the melody into a wild whirlpool of notes.
The ups and downs of the tune are just like the experiences of everyone in the story, and the dangers behind the peaceful life also arise.
All stories begin with this score, and the score drives the storyline to the climax and ends perfectly.
And this piece of music spans two centuries and connects two stories, just to uproot those untouchable secrets!
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The young pianist Julia got this score and thought it was a stunning work. But every time you play this piece of music. Bizarre things happen at home.
She suspected that something was wrong with her three-year-old daughter. She suspected that this piece of music had some kind of magic power, and she fell into deep self-contradiction.
All conjectures seem to indicate some kind of instructions, and every time a new clue appears that seems to be about to solve the mystery, there will be deviations.
Obviously the answer is ready to come out, but you just can't say it, leaving you scratching your head and wondering about it.
Why does this Incendio bring tragedy?
Who is sick, mother or daughter?
The suspense color becomes more and more intense, and the story gradually reaches its climax.
In a series of unknowns and entanglements, mother Julia decided to go to Venice to find the final answer, and the mystery was slowly revealed.
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The monument in the square is engraved with a series of names and numbers, and it reads "Lorenzo Todesco 24".
It turns out that this is the monument to the Jewish camp Novo, and the Jews who were expelled by the fascist Nazi party are engraved on it.
And Lorenzo is the composer of this weird Incendio. He was a violin prodigy from childhood until he was arrested by the SS during World War II, and his family was among the 246 Jews deported from Venice.
Due to his status as a musician, he was not sent to a concentration camp for the time being. Instead, he formed "a poor man's band" with five other inmates. They were told:
Every night, their ears will be surrounded by screams, and trucks of living people or corpses are sent to be burned. So Lorenzo composed this piece called "Fire" by Incandio.
The appearance of this piece of music is to cover up the cries in the incinerator. It records the sins of fascism in a unique way while covering up the crimes.
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The so-called "Burning Song" is the last song heard by thousands of prisoners who were sentenced to death. It is to cover up the crimes during the burning and to protect the innocent. The cry of life.
Later, the original manuscript of the song was stolen, and now the descendants of the person who stole the song have become candidates for the country's top leadership.
If outsiders knew that he was the grandson of a war criminal, then he would definitely have no chance of being a leader. Therefore, he wanted to find this song, and the person who found the song, his mother Julia, became the target of his attack.
In the end, mother Julia revealed the truth and successfully vindicated Lorenzo.
At the same time, the strange family affairs also found a new breakthrough. It turns out that everything originated from mother Julia.
At the end of the song, the two trajectories overlapped again in a clever gesture, becoming the key to uncovering the historical truth.
Jian Baoyu’s reading challenge check-in - "Burning Song"