![]() ![]() Surprisingly, The Bells is a love story, for Moses falls in love with a woman who is forbidden to him. Here his angelic voice is discovered by the choir master and preserved for all time by a horrible act of castration. Moses is rescued by traveling monks, Nicolai and Remus, and taken to the monastery at St. When the village priest (his father) discovers that Moses is not deaf like his mother, the man attempts to drown Moses in a river. These bells are so loud that the villagers clamp their hands to their ears, but the sound has a different effect on Moses, giving him an almost magical ability to hear and dissect sounds, near and far. Moses Froben is born in a remote Swiss village to a deaf-mute woman who finds her one great pleasure (apart from her love for her son) in the vibrations she feels ringing the massive bells in her village’s church. ![]() The Bells is a fictional autobiography, a letter written by a castrati father to his son, explaining how their relationship came to be. During the time I spent entranced with this story, my body rang like the bells within its pages. ![]() The sounds and music within its pages should make the book throb and vibrate across the table. When I look at my copy of The Bells sitting in front of me, I cannot believe it lies there immobile and lifeless. ![]()
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