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Little wonder a novel

"Song is a nobody -- just a food delivery worker from a village in Northeastern China -- but her son, River, is a little wonder. At the age of four, he toddled to a piano and tapped out his favorite song. At eight, he mastered Liszt's three Liebestraume; at ten, he blazed through the complete set of...

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Main Author: Keller, Sophie Chen, 1988- (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Thousand Voices x Ballantine Books, [2026]
Edition:First edition.
Series:Oprah's book club
Subjects:
Mother and child > China > Fiction.
Gifted children > China > Fiction.
Music > China > Fiction.
Child musicians > Fiction.
Missing children > Fiction.
Love, Maternal > Fiction.
Beijing (China) > Fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Domestic fiction.
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Summary:"Song is a nobody -- just a food delivery worker from a village in Northeastern China -- but her son, River, is a little wonder. At the age of four, he toddled to a piano and tapped out his favorite song. At eight, he mastered Liszt's three Liebestraume; at ten, he blazed through the complete set of Chopin's eĢtudes. And at every step, through the valleys of loss, illness, and poverty, Song is there to light his way -- until finally, at the age of eleven, River is invited to study with a preeminent teacher in Beijing. But in the chaos of Beijing Railway Station on the busiest day of the year, Song faces every mother's nightmare: She loses her grip on River's little hand and is unable to find him after a desperate, harrowing search. Over the next days, weeks, and eventually, years, Song and River fight to forge a path back to each other as they carve out new lives that carry them farther apart. An evocative exploration of a mother's love and a son's yearning, Little Wonder takes us on an extraordinary journey through a modern Beijing that pulses with the music of humanity and its impossible -- and impossibly brave -- hopes. As every musician knows: You start in one key. You wander to other keys, strange and distant places. But in the end, you always come back home." --
Item Description:"Oprah's book club 2026" -- Dust jacket.
Physical Description:338 pages ; 25 cm.
ISBN:9798217094608
Author Notes:Sophie Chen Keller is the author of The Luster of Lost Things, which was also released in Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands. Her first publication came at the age of fifteen, with a short story in Glimmer Train literary magazine. A classically trained pianist, she was born in China and raised in California; after graduating from Harvard, she lived in New York City and Beijing before moving to Germany, where she currently resides with her husband and two children.

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