![]() ![]() There he witnesses horrors: “Lives thrown out like trash…A five-year-old child hanged for stealing a little rice. On a foray across the border, Leal is arrested and sent to the gulag. During the same years, John Leal is working in China, with an NGO helping people escape from North Korea. Shortly after these events, Phoebe-still unmoored and grieving-arrives at Edwards. They crash, and Phoebe’s mother is killed. After the argument, Phoebe drives the two of them home, eyes still full of tears. She and her mother argue over this decision. That very day she quits the piano for good, withdrawing her applications to music schools and conservatories. Listening to it, Phoebe realizes that she will never be able to play the piece as it should be played. When she finally masters this piece and performs it for her teacher, her teacher rewards her with a gift: the best-known recording of the piece, played by a virtuoso. She plays and practices obsessively, and over time, her obsession comes to focus on a particular piece of music. As a young child, Korean American Phoebe Lin longs to be a concert pianist. ![]()
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