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The Title- "Savior" is in disrespect to the only "Savior" we have Jesus Christ!! An alternative definition of "savior" is, according to The American Heritage Dictionary, 4th edition, "A person who rescues another from harm, danger, or loss".

I read "The Savior: A Novel" last week. The style of writing is marvelous. The prose is rich and dense. No Faulknerian meanderings here! I found the last 60 pages or so very tough going emotionally.

Also, I think Drucker has insight that a non-musician would never be able to express. Chapter 11, p. 141, describes one of those "left the fiddle on the train" dreams that we all have from time to time.

This is a terrific novel.

Thanks Laurie for a great interview. I greatly enjoyed the story of Mr. Drucker's interaction with Mr. Zygmuntowicz in "The Violin Maker" and look forward to reading the novel.

It is unfortunate that members of certain religious sects would object to the use of an excellent English language word of universal provenance in this context.

Choosing the title: "The Savior" to western readers is an invitation to rhetoric at a minimum, and controversy perhaps.

I like the title personally, I like the angle he's taking, and the only way to exercise our spirituality is to make it personal, accountable, and lucid.

Choosing this image for me, a great fan of "Jesus Christ Superstar", not only achieves that lucidity, but is an excellent metaphor for Christ within. And it personalizes our own journey as well--demons and all..

The good Lord slaps the pee out of me three times a day for irreverence, then blesses me with wonderful gardens. And I like it!. Be encouraged.

I look forward to reading the book. However, I wonder if it will add much to Martin Goldsmith's non-fiction account, The Inextinguishable Symphony, of his parents' experience as musicians in the Jewish Kulturbund orchestras in Germany during the period 1933-41. Laurie, thank you for an excellent interview. I have the book on order and am greatly looking forward to reading it. However, it may arrive at the same time as Harry Potter...while I'm away at music camp! I may have a few sleepless nights at the end of this month. Tom, agreed that "The Inextinguishable Symphony" is very good. "The Savior: A Novel" is a different sort of reading experience, at least it was for me. The quality of the prose, and the pace of the story, is so good that it really pulls you in. Or at least, it pulled me in. The use of color is striking. I'm going to write a book with a title that inspires book burnings like never seen before. 300 pages of gibberish, read it, burn it, I don't care. Just buy it.