Book title: Trumpet Voluntary
Author: Jeremy Harmer
Publisher / Year: Cambridge University Press (1999)
Book type: Thriller, drama.
Pages: 111
Summary:
Derek, who is a viola player from London, realizes that his wife has disappeared. It looks like she had got in contact with an old love when they studied music ten years earlier.
Derek who doesn’t know why Malgosia had left him searches for her. He flew to Rio de Janeiro and with the help of a private detective he finds Tibor and Malgosia together. He is told that Malgosia would be dead because she got in contact with a chemical agent.
Afterwards, Derek has to see Malgosia’s funeral in Poland which makes him go back to Rio to find the reasons of her death. There he arranged a meeting with the criminal Tibor in a restaurant. Tibor told Derek the story about Malgosia’s death. After that, Derek shows a box in which Tibor though the chemical substance is. So Tibor runs away from the restaurant followed by Derek and they start a persecution. At the end, Derek goes back to London with his new wife.
Opinion:
I really enjoyed this book because the story catches you immediately and you can’t stop reading until the end.
This story is about love and hate. There is love and love that becomes hate. Sometimes it is hard to see the divide, but these two things are the moral of the story. Love can be wonderful but it is an easy thing to let love become hate and anger.
I also found interesting to read what things love makes you to do. I mean, a woman who is married a man left him because she really loves another man who doesn’t, and he makes her to die. At the same time, the man betrayed looks for her wife desperately and he notices she is dead. A few weeks later he fells in love with another woman like if nothing had happened. The author wants to emphasize those strange attitudes of humans.
Language / Style:
The author uses a formal British language. It is quite easy to understand the whole story because there are very common words and not so difficult structures.
Author: Jeremy Harmer
Publisher / Year: Cambridge University Press (1999)
Book type: Thriller, drama.
Pages: 111
Summary:
Derek, who is a viola player from London, realizes that his wife has disappeared. It looks like she had got in contact with an old love when they studied music ten years earlier.
Derek who doesn’t know why Malgosia had left him searches for her. He flew to Rio de Janeiro and with the help of a private detective he finds Tibor and Malgosia together. He is told that Malgosia would be dead because she got in contact with a chemical agent.
Afterwards, Derek has to see Malgosia’s funeral in Poland which makes him go back to Rio to find the reasons of her death. There he arranged a meeting with the criminal Tibor in a restaurant. Tibor told Derek the story about Malgosia’s death. After that, Derek shows a box in which Tibor though the chemical substance is. So Tibor runs away from the restaurant followed by Derek and they start a persecution. At the end, Derek goes back to London with his new wife.
Opinion:
I really enjoyed this book because the story catches you immediately and you can’t stop reading until the end.
This story is about love and hate. There is love and love that becomes hate. Sometimes it is hard to see the divide, but these two things are the moral of the story. Love can be wonderful but it is an easy thing to let love become hate and anger.
I also found interesting to read what things love makes you to do. I mean, a woman who is married a man left him because she really loves another man who doesn’t, and he makes her to die. At the same time, the man betrayed looks for her wife desperately and he notices she is dead. A few weeks later he fells in love with another woman like if nothing had happened. The author wants to emphasize those strange attitudes of humans.
Language / Style:
The author uses a formal British language. It is quite easy to understand the whole story because there are very common words and not so difficult structures.
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