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Inkberry Books: July 11th at 7:00

Edward Hamlin

Sonata In Wax

SONATA IN WAX is an immersive, time-hopping musical mystery that intertwines the stories of Elisabeth Garnier, a young Frenchwoman living in World War I Boston, and Ben Weil, an acclaimed music producer whose life is consumed by a lie--and by a bizarre, breathtaking sonata that could destroy him if he can't uncover its composer's identity in time.

Edward Hamlin is the winner of the Nelson Algren Award, the Iowa Short Fiction Award, the Nelligan Prize and the Colorado Book Award. Pulitzer Prize finalist Karen Russell called his prizewinning short story collection, NIGHT IN ERG CHEBBI AND OTHER  

STORIES,"sweeping and intimate and awesomely confident." Publishers Weekly named NIGHT IN ERG CHEBBI a "memorable read from a writer with considerable talent." About Hamlin's debut novel, National Book Award finalist Ben Fountain said: "SONATA IN WAX is a terrific novel--immersive, compelling, smart, the story propelled by a cast of complex, full-bodied characters and the author's absolute mastery of the musical worlds he conjures...I'm knocked flat with admiration for this splendid novel." Kirkus Reviews called it "a deeply realized tale of the power of music and the anonymity of history."

Since 2012 Edward Hamlin has published more than twenty-five stories in Ploughshares, Missouri Review, Colorado Review, Bellevue Literary Review, Chariton, the Chicago Tribune and elsewhere, garnering three Pushcart Prize nominations along the way. His work has been shortlisted twice for the Bridport Prize (UK) and has been a finalist for the Flannery O'Connor Award, the Grace Paley Award, the Narrative Story Prize, the Raymond Carver Award and others. Stories of his have also been performed on stage and published by Audible.

A New York native and an accomplished composer, Edward Hamlin spent his formative years in Chicago and now lives in the Colorado foothills. He is represented by Deborah Schneider of Gelfman-Schneider/ICM.