Recommendations

　Gu Biling (Editor-in-Chief, News&Market)
　Zhu Hezhi (Writer)
　Kan (Writer)
　Xu Chingfang (Writer)

Borrowing the musician’s story as the structure, the fictional story is grounded in historical facts, and then interspersing one scene with another. The topic is unique and the writing is fluent without any showmanship; the author focuses on the characterization and structuring of the plot, and the step-by-step proceed of the inference brings the readers supreme reading enjoyment.
——Gu Biling

Originally thought that the mystery persued by the protagonist is the trace of Vivaldi’s violin, but I didn't expect that the secret explored is the heart of love. It’s a little romantic but depress, and I feel slightly overwhelmed by the mood swings, the most suspenseful is the love of people, probably. The troubles of love of several characters in the book are written in a very delicate way, and the twists and turns of plots are combined with Vivaldi’s letters and various classical music, which will not be read as a general speculative fiction, but it is a very beautiful read.
——Kan

★ Thirst for sinking and transcending, a baroque history of make painstaking investigation and persuit the perfection in music

★Three hundred years after the disappearance, the violin of the great composer Vivaldi has suddenly appeared.
This famous violin that was the propulsion and the price of the famous song “The Four Seasons”.
The strings touched by an exceedingly sentimental bow, playing a chapter of unending love story that spans three centuries.

★A succinct paper by an unknown author, published in an obscure journal, has alarmed the black market of antique musical instruments in Europe. Musical instrument hunters have traveled from the bustling and beautiful cities to the island of Taiwan to discover the position of the great composer Vivaldi’s violin.

Three hundred years ago in Beijing, a Jesuit priest disobeyed orders from his superiors and refused to present a violin in exchange for an audience with the Kangxi Emperor. Was that perhaps Vivaldi's violin? Three hundred years later, where is the famous violin? All eyes turn to the Jesuits who evacuated China after the Communist civil war and ended up in Taipei, but their archives are like a brick wall, forbidding anyone but a naive student to enter.

In the depths of the archives, a bouch of secret letters written by Vivaldi uncovers the past, confusing the eyes of researchers and shaking the vows of monks. Two violinists with very different temperaments, and three seemingly unrecognizable musical couples, who will be able to know the secret and get this famous violin? And who will be the winner that understands the overtone of Vivaldi? Or who thinks they will be?

Amis of the Tifalong Tribe, Ph.D. researcher in history at Leiden University, settled in the Netherlands, she has a career in translation, writing, research and is involved in the International Movement of Indigenous Peoples. Specializes in history and aboriginal literature. Winner of the 2017 Taiwan Literature Award for Aboriginal Short Stories Golden Canon. His published novels include The Extinctive Mojo and Her Right Brain and the Pink Elephant, and translations include The Old Ways and Underland: A Deep Time Journey.