Harvell, Richard.
The bells : a novel / Richard Harvell. - 1st ed. - New York : Crown Publishers, c2010. - viii, 374 p. ; 25 cm.
The celebrated opera singer Lo Svizzero was born in a belfry in the Swiss Alps where his mother served as the keeper of the loudest and most beautiful bells in the land. As a boy he possessed an extraordinary gift for sound. But when his preternatural hearing was discovered -- along with its power to expose the sins of the church -- young Moses Froben was cast out of his village with only his ears to guide him in a world fraught with danger. Rescued by two traveling Monks, his adventures begin, taking him on a journey to Europe's opera houses and a secret in his pass is revealed.
9780307590527 (alk. paper) 0307590526 (alk. paper)
2009038737
Boys--Fiction.
Singers--Fiction.
Bildungsromans.
813/.6
The bells : a novel / Richard Harvell. - 1st ed. - New York : Crown Publishers, c2010. - viii, 374 p. ; 25 cm.
The celebrated opera singer Lo Svizzero was born in a belfry in the Swiss Alps where his mother served as the keeper of the loudest and most beautiful bells in the land. As a boy he possessed an extraordinary gift for sound. But when his preternatural hearing was discovered -- along with its power to expose the sins of the church -- young Moses Froben was cast out of his village with only his ears to guide him in a world fraught with danger. Rescued by two traveling Monks, his adventures begin, taking him on a journey to Europe's opera houses and a secret in his pass is revealed.
9780307590527 (alk. paper) 0307590526 (alk. paper)
2009038737
Boys--Fiction.
Singers--Fiction.
Bildungsromans.
813/.6