Yasmina Reza is best known as the author of the immensely successful Tonyawardwinning play Art. Her latest work <strong>Hammerklavier</strong> is a bittersweetc... » 

Yasmina Reza is best known as the author of the immensely successful Tonyawardwinning play Art. Her latest work Hammerklavier is a bittersweetcollection of autobiographical sketches that have love loss and therelentless passage of time as their themes.Convinced that ones deepest thoughts can be said simply Reza does so withunequaled humor and perceptiveness. She contemplates evanescence and death inher young daughters toothless smile secretly mourning that it will inevitablychange. In the title story the sometimes adversarial but very lovingrelationship Reza shared with her father is examined in terms of their love ofmusic. «