![]() He is asked to teach Kyung-hee Kim, a 9-year-old Korean cello prodigy, and he is chosen to participate as a juror in the gruesome murder trial of a disturbed young man accused of beating his Zen master to death. A self-described "nearly middle-aged virgin," Renne finds little pleasure in his increasingly reclusive life until two events conspire to rejuvenate him. Instead, he teaches in the music department at a large university in Los Angeles and dreams of the admittedly unlikely chance of a musical comeback. Unable to perfect the art of the cello, he cringes at the very sound of his own playing. Random House, $19.Ĭlassical music, Zen philosophy and jury duty provide the unusual mix for Mark Salzman's quietly powerful novel "The Soloist." Once a renowned child prodigy, Renne Sundheimer, now 36, has long since retired from the concert stage. ![]() MUSIC AND MURDER THE SOLOIST By Mark Salzman. ![]()
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