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Title: A book to be experienced
Review: I cannot adequately describe what it was like for me to have experienced Celestial Harmonies, but I will try:Part I is deceptively simple in its reduction of several generations of Esterhazy men (father, grandfathers, great grandfathers, etc) into "father" and "son." Yet this narrative device allows us to experience Peter Esterhazy's own complex and wonderful family history first hand, with details presented in small "chapters," often out of sequence from one another. These pieces coalesce and provide the reader with an ancestrial memory of this great aristocratic family.Part II is more linear in its presentaion, and focuses on Esterhazy men of the twentieth century and all that was lost to the ravages war, Communism and revolution. It provides a glimpse into a time and a place in the world that I don't often hear about(in the US).Celestial Harmonies is a most rewarding experience and I highly recommend it.
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