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The great passion : a novel / James Runcie.

Author: Runcie, James, 1959- author.

Physical Description260 pages ; 25 cm

Note:Told through the story of Bach's writing of the St. Matthew's Passion, this meditation on grief and music follows thirteen-year-old Stefan Silbermann who is taken under the tutelage of Bach and drawn into Bach's family life, escaping the cruelty of his classmates.

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