ZB ZB
Live now
Start time
Playing for
End time
Listen live
Listen to NAME OF STATION
Up next
Listen live on
ZB

Joan's Picks: The Pianist of Yarmouk and Loving Sylvie

Author
Newstalk ZB ,
Publish Date
Sun, 21 Apr 2019, 12:35PM

Joan's Picks: The Pianist of Yarmouk and Loving Sylvie

Author
Newstalk ZB ,
Publish Date
Sun, 21 Apr 2019, 12:35PM

The Pianist of Yarmouk by Aeham Ahmad

About a Syrian guy who became famous for playing his piano in the streets of Syria during the war to try and raise peoples’ spirits – became a bit of a YouTube sensation, pushing his piano around the streets of his suburb and making beautiful music. He’s still quite young – only around 30 I think – but this is his life story. 

Loving Sylvie by Elizabeth Smither

A lovely novel about three generations of women – Sylvie, her mother and her grandmother. Set between Auckland, Paris and Melbourne it’s an insight into the minutiae of their lives – ordinary women with tangled relationships, rivalries, love affairs, marriages and children – the things which  make us who we are and which speaks to the lives so many of us live.

 

Take your Radio, Podcasts and Music with you