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Music Against the Night by Yiyun Li review – a virtuosic interrogation of the power of art

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What does it cost, to live your life in the hope of immortality? Li examines the gulf between talent and genius through the marriage of two real-life musicians In his recently published A History of the Novel in Britain , Philip Hensher makes a bold claim.…

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