Publisher's Synopsis
'The lyrical prose reads like music set to words and, like the themes of any great symphony, these words evoke a medley of moods... a prose poem of near perfection, packed with phrases that glow like precious gems. A delicate embroidery of words, a tapestry of classical metaphors and allusions, a simplistically sophisticated style, and an eye-opening exegesis of musical mysteries.' Aubrey Paton, Sunday Times. Two artists fly from two corners of the world to Vienna to unearth the mystery of the father of romantic music Beethoven's lost ballet The Creatures of Prometheus. They are like marionettes pulled by the strings of Beethoven, always looking up to the sky to identify the invisible hands surrounding the series of coincidences which draw them together. In the city of music all artists are drawn to the fire of Prometheus, rising toward the sun, turning around the horizon in circles until man lies suspended between the spinning earth and the dizzy sky. In this fantastic exploration into romantic relationships the artists' reality tends ever closer to magic realism as their stories merge in a climatic rhyming symphony. In mythology and theology, the male and female once existed as a single essence, before their creator split them apart. They will only rest after rediscovering one another, to become one and whole again. The Flight of the Wooden Dancer explores the essence of romantic relationships, compared to the relation between the creator and his art, through natural and unnatural forms of life.
