Music for the Third Ear

Seeking asylum from a distant conflict in Easter Europe, Zheljka and Mesud are given refuge in the home of Hans Olav and Mette in Oslo. Their arrival will have profound consequences. Apparently settled into a childless middle age, Mette revisits her own unresolved family history in her frantic desire to establish a connection with Zheljka. All the while, Mesud and Zheljka try to reinvent their love for each other in the aftermath of a brutal war. Powerful and compassionate, Music for the Third Ear is a deeply moving novel about war and its consequences. Author Susan Schwartz Senstad, an American married to a Norwegian, lives near Oslo. Music for the Third Ear won the Charles Angoff Award at The Literary Review , was a semi-finalist in the 1998 William Faulkner Writing Competition, and was nominated for the 1998 Pushcart Editor's Choice Award. This is her first novel.