Then Emilie returns and they have a child, Gustav. Erich has an affair with Lottie, the wife of Loses his job and his apartment as a result and, Emilie moves to live with her mother. Erich then starts falsifying entry dates to allow Jews to enter Switzerland, he therefore Erich arranges a holiday toĭavos, to rebuild their relationship. She gets pregnant and they marry, but the pressure of the Jews migrating across theĪustrian-Swiss border make her husband's job difficult, and he pushes her and they lose the baby. The Assistant Police Chief in Matzlingan. Gustav then joins the Zwiebels on a holiday to Davos where the boys playīefore the war, Gustav's mother Emilia attends the local Schwingfest wrestling festival where she falls for Erich Perle, Gustav's father died mysteriously during the war, Anton is Jewish and plays the piano, but he comes last in a competition inīern where his family and Gustav are in the audience. Set in post-war Switzerland where Gustav Perle and his best friend Anton Zwiebel live in a fictional small town called Matzlingan. It was loosely based on Paul Grüninger, Police Chief of the Canton of St Gallen in 1937. It won the National Jewish Book Award in 2016 and the Ribalow Prize in 2017 and it was also shortlisted for the Costa Book Awards and the Walter Scott Prize in 2016 and longlisted for the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction in 2017. The Gustav Sonata is a novel by English author Rose Tremain published in 2016 by Chatto & Windus.
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