The Universe in 3/4 Time
by Leona Francombe ’78 is a European musical mystery set in motion by the discovery the author made one winter’s night of a piano abandoned on the street near her home in Brussels. The book is a modern quest fueled by wartime intrigue and echoes with the mysticism of Johannes Kepler, whose 450th birthday is being celebrated this year. The book joins three struggling musicians as they head off across Europe to recover a mysterious World War II piano, a dangerous quest that illuminates not only the fate of the piano’s elusive owner but also secrets of their art lost in antiquity. (Merle Books Brussels, 2021)
