Choral am Ende der Reise
An international bestseller by Norwegian author Erik Fosnes Hansen. A novel about seven musicians from the Titanic orchestra; their lives and fates told over the five days leading up to the disaster in 1912.
The story begins on April 10, 1912 in Southampton, when seven musicians board the RMS Titanic to entertain passengers on its maiden voyage to New York. In the five days leading up to the disaster, the author depicts their lives through fictional biographies – full of hopes, failures, passions and despair.
The musicians come from different European countries; each carries his own story of artistic ambition, loss and wandering. Titanic serves only as a framework: the real focus is on human destinies, European culture at the turn of the century and the metaphor of life as a journey that ends abruptly.
Hansen masterfully combines historical reconstruction, psychological depth and poetic prose. The novel is not another melodrama about the sinking of the Titanic, but a meditation on art, transience and dignity in the moment of ruin.
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