'Beautiful thoughtful . sharp and scintillatingly sensual' Independent'With this haunting
poetic work McCann has surely earned his place among the country's greats'
Metro__________________The life of Zoli Novotna begins on the leafy backroads of Slovakia when
she and her grandfather come upon a quiet lake where their family has been drowned by Fascist
guards. Zoli and her grandfather flee to join up with another clan of travelling harpists. So
begins an epic tale of song intimacy and betrayal. Based loosely on the true story of the
Gypsy poet Papusza and set against the backdrop of the Second World War Zoli is a love story
a tale of loss and a parable of modern-day Europe.
