Brahms Comes to Dinner

Overview

Music and love intertwine in this compelling historical novel of a romance that never dies— yet burns unrequited for a lifetime— between the great composer Johannes Brahms and Clara Schumann, the widow of his musical champion Robert Schumann, who chose instead to give her life over to the performance of her late husband's work, immortalizing the one true love in her life.

Author Biography

Boman Desai was bound for a career in market analysis when a chance encounter with Sir Edmund Hillary, his first hero, turned him back to writing. He had his first break when an elegant elderly woman submitted half a dozen of his stories for publication to Debonair (in Mumbai where he was born and raised)—all of which were published, but the woman vanished and her identity remains a mystery to this day. His second break came when another elegant elderly woman, Diana Athill, published his first novel, The Memory of Elephants. Desai is best known for that novel, published subsequently by the Un