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Aloha, Mozart
Aloha, Mozart
Aloha, Mozart
Waimea Williams
Luminis Books presents this tale of passion, travel, and beauty set amidst tragedy.Would you risk your life--or your soul--for the sake of art?Born into an impoverished Hawaiian family in the 1960s, Maile Manoa's quest for a life in music lures her to the high-stakes world of European opera. In Salzburg, Austria she attracts the attentions of powerful men and falls in love--with a troubled young musician, with the city, and the intrigue that surrounds her.When Werner von Wehlen, the famous conductor at the center of Salzburg's glamorous music festival, offers her a leading role, she is forced to confront the Nazi heart of the classical music scene and von Wehlen's treacherous past.  With Soviet tanks threatening to invade the city on the evening of her much-anticipated premiere, Maile must choose between recognition on the world stage or leaving the city with her life--and her conscience--intact. HAWAII / OPERA / THE SOVIET UNION / AUSTRIA / THE 1960'S / ROMANCE / LITERARY FICTION
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  • Fiction

Age Level: 

  • 12 and up
Aloha, Mozart review by RMC0611
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Maile Manoa has been blessed with a beautiful voice and an insatiable thirst for music. However, the options for musical growth are almost nonexistent in Hawaii, and she must sing to provide for her family. Unsatisfied with the same Hawaiian songs she has sung all her life, Maile becomes determined to travel to New York, in search of opera and stardom. Funds run low quickly, and jobs are unforthcoming and forbidden, as the wrong gig could potentially ruin a future career. Maile quickly discovers that singing is not solely a career, but a lifestyle in which appearance is everything.

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