The true adventures of Nicolò Zen : a novel

ISBN: 037586492X (pbk.)
ISBN: 9780375864926 (pbk.)
ISBN: 0375867384
ISBN: 9780375867385
Physical Description: 271 pages ; 21 cm print
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2014.

Summary: "Fourteen-year-old Nicolo Zen has been left orphaned, poor, and alone on the streets of Venice in 1714, his only possession a rare clarinet enchanted by a famous magician to ensure that the first person who put it to his lips would be able to play it expertly. Unable to survive on the coins he collects playing in the street, Nicolo dons a disguise to enter a prestigious all-girls orphanage. His music soon earns him acclaim beyond his wildest dreams--and the attention of his beautiful fellow orphan Adriana. As the magical clarinet carries him away from the orphanage and on a whirlwind tour of eighteenth-century Europe's greatest cities, Nicolo must ask himself: has he truly earned his success, or does he owe everything to the magician's spell? And what would remain of his enchanted life if the mysterious and forbidding magician were to remove it?"--Back cover.