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- The Christian Science Monitor
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- October 9, 2007
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Byline: Martha White and M.K.
The Spanish Bow
Author: Andromeda Romano-Lax
"I was almost born Happy."
So begins Andromeda Romano-Lax's debut novel, The Spanish Bow, a book that was almost a nonfiction account of the cellist Pablo Casals. Instead, Romano-Lax's extensive research led her to write a historical novel about a musical trio: Feliu Delargo, a Catalan cellist born in 1892; Justo Al-Cerraz, a Spanish composer and pianist; and Aviva Henze-Pergolesi, a Jewish Italian violinist. Mostly, it is the story of Feliu, the cellist, whose name (from the Spanish feliz, for happy) was misspelled on a premature death certificate when he ...