"New York (State)" . . "Opera." . . . . . "A young woman in flight from her past, and an old woman whose secrets are contained in the grave ... With this configuration Kathryn Davis, the acclaimed author of Labrador, begins a novel of true bravura - about opera, Denmark, adultery, and murder. In upstate New York, Frances Thorn waits tables in a diner, despite her privileged, educated background, and raises her twin daughters without the presence or even a memory of their father. But these puzzling circumstances are made stranger still, and inalterably changed, when she meets an elderly Danish woman named Helle Ten Brix, a renowned but esoteric composer now living with relatives in the same small town."@en . "A young woman in flight from her past, and an old woman whose secrets are contained in the grave ... With this configuration Kathryn Davis, the acclaimed author of Labrador, begins a novel of true bravura - about opera, Denmark, adultery, and murder. In upstate New York, Frances Thorn waits tables in a diner, despite her privileged, educated background, and raises her twin daughters without the presence or even a memory of their father. But these puzzling circumstances are made stranger still, and inalterably changed, when she meets an elderly Danish woman named Helle Ten Brix, a renowned but esoteric composer now living with relatives in the same small town." . . . "Didactic fiction"@en . "Didactic fiction" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Fiction"@en . "Fiction" . . "The girl who trod on a loaf : a novel"@en . "Musical fiction"@en . . . "Musical fiction" . . . . . "The girl who trod on a loaf" . "The girl who trod on a loaf"@en . . . "The Girl who trod on a loaf" . . . "Opera Fiction." . .