J SS Bach is the story of three generations of women from either side
of Germany's 20th Century horror story - one side, a Jewish family from
Vienna, the other linked to a ranking Nazi official at Dachau
concentration camp - who suffer the consequences of what men do. Fast
forward to 1990s California, and two survivors from the families meet.
Rosa is a young Australian musicologist; Otto is a world-famous composer
and cellist. Music and history link them. A novel of music, the
Holocaust, love, and a dog.
The author's writing is a wonderland, captivating and drawing the reader
in to the presented world. Time becomes no object as a literary universe
unfolds and carries the reader through eighty years, where emotions are
real and raw and beautifully given.