Gone: A Girl, a Violin, a Life Unstrung
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Her first violin was tiny, harsh, factory-made; her first piece was “Twinkle Twinkle, Little Star.” But from the very beginning, Min Kym knew that music was the element in which she could swim and dive and soar. At seven years old, she was a prodigy, the youngest ever student at the famed Purcell School. At eleven, she won her first international prize; at eighteen, violinist great Ruggiero Ricci called her “the most talented violinist I’ve ever taught.” And at twenty-one, she found “the one,” the violin she would play as a soloist: a rare 1696 Stradivarius. Her career took off. She recorded the Brahms concerto and a world tour was planned.
Then, in a London café, her violin was stolen. She felt as though she had lost her soulmate, and with it her sense of who she was. Overnight she became unable to play or function, stunned into silence.
In this lucid and transfixing memoir, Kym reckons with the space left by her violin’s absence. She sees with new eyes her past as a child prodigy, with its isolation and crushing expectations; her combustible relationships with teachers and with a domineering boyfriend; and her navigation of two very different worlds, her traditional Korean family and her music. And in the stark yet clarifying light of her loss, she rediscovers her voice and herself.
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Min Kym. (2017). Gone: A Girl, a Violin, a Life Unstrung. Crown.
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- The spellbinding memoir of a violin virtuoso who loses the instrument that had defined her both on stage and off — and who discovers, beyond the violin, the music of her own voice
Her first violin was tiny, harsh, factory-made; her first piece was “Twinkle Twinkle, Little Star.” But from the very beginning, Min Kym knew that music was the element in which she could swim and dive and soar. At seven years old, she was a prodigy, the youngest ever student at the famed Purcell School. At eleven, she won her first international prize; at eighteen, violinist great Ruggiero Ricci called her “the most talented violinist I’ve ever taught.” And at twenty-one, she found “the one,” the violin she would play as a soloist: a rare 1696 Stradivarius. Her career took off. She recorded the Brahms concerto and a world tour was planned.
Then, in a London café, her violin was stolen. She felt as though she had lost her soulmate, and with it her sense of who she was. Overnight she became unable to play or function, stunned into silence.
In this lucid and transfixing memoir, Kym reckons with the space left by her violin’s absence. She sees with new eyes her past as a child prodigy, with its isolation and crushing expectations; her combustible relationships with teachers and with a domineering boyfriend; and her navigation of two very different worlds, her traditional Korean family and her music. And in the stark yet clarifying light of her loss, she rediscovers her voice and herself. - reviews
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Kym, who discovered the violin at just seven years old, quickly began outperforming her peers and teachers and soon became a featured soloist at orchestral concerts. In this beautiful memoir, she shares the juxtaposition of what it means to be unique and special while also learning to be a good Korean daughter: seen but not heard, subservient to her elders, and never able to forget that simply being a girl makes her lesser. At 21, she found a rare 1696 Stradivarius that would musically complete her. Then, in 2010, her violin was stolen, and Kym sank into a depression that forced her to come to terms with the love and loss of her childhood, the control that stifled her, and the opposite lives she was forced to live. Kym’s story sings with the music of Bach, Brahms, Mendelssohn, and the many other composers who wrote the score of her life. Kym’s descriptions of playing music will bring readers as close to the experience as they can get without picking up an instrument. This work of love, loss and redemption is sure to connect with many.
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A child prodigy suffers a great loss and then finds herself.This memoir tells a number of different stories, all of them involving what the virtuosic violinist calls "two Mins." The first is that of a South Korea-born girl living in England learning that children should be subservient to elders and that girls are inferior. Then there is the prodigy Min, who came to realize just how isolated she had become from ordinary life. Ultimately, there was Min with the violin and Min without, and she developed into a woman who has a life independent of her instrument, one who has found some measure of peace and fulfillment on her own as well as a mature perspective on what she has been through: "I was a little Korean girl thrown into a strange world. I was asked to perform without quite knowing who I was. It's still a strange world, and I am still Korean, but I don't bow any more. I know who I am." In the early chapters, the writing about a child's passion for music, how it differs for a prodigy, and how it feels to be part of two cultures and somehow apart from each has a purity and stylistic simplicity that are themselves musical, as if Kym has been able to transfer her great potential from her violin to her writing. Yet the story at the heart of this memoir has a complexity with which the author still wrestles. Kym resents that she accedes to the insistence of others, to mentors and to men in general, and her failure to follow her better instincts resulted in the theft of her extremely valuable 1696 Stradivarius violin. She might have eventually gotten it back if, again, she hadn't listened to others in making wrong decisions. The story of losing, regaining, and losing the violin again keeps the author torn between accepting responsibility and resenting others. "I had devils in my ear," she writes. A pellucid memoir of letting go and coming to terms.COPYRIGHT(2017) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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