Fractured Soul: A Luthier's Journey from War-Torn Tokyo to Paris - Healing Through Music

“A sweeping and moving story about music, war, being true to our roots, friendship, and the beauty of the silence that follows a Schubert sonata.”-Tahar Ben Jelloun, Le Point Awarded the Prix des libraires by France’s booksellers, a universal story about music and restoring one’s faith in others amid the aftermath of tremendous loss. Tokyo, 1938. An amateur quartet, led by the compassionate Yu, gathers to practice.Suddenly, their rehearsal is brutally interrupted by military police.In the ensuing skirmish, Yu’s violin is smashed while his son, Rei, witnesses his father’s arrest.He will never see him again. Salvaging his father’s instrument, Rei escapes thanks to a mysterious lieutenant. Paris, 2003. Raised in France, Rei-now Jacques-has dedicated his life to the broken violin’s repair: studying music, becoming an apprentice, and, eventually, a luthier.However, despite his effort to rehabilitate the damage of years ago, he struggles to reconcile his past with the present. Yet, when a wo