This March, Chilean-American author Ariel Dorfman’s latest book “ALLEGRO” will be released in paperback.

“ALLEGRO: A Novel” is a historical mystery starring Mozart as he investigates the deaths of Bach and Handel. Dorfman spins a tale of friendship, betrayal, and ruminates on how music allows us to defy death. The book blurb reads, “In 1789 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart visits the grave of Johann Sebastian Bach in Leipzig, looking for a sign, a signal, an answer to an enigma that has haunted him since childhood: Was Bach murdered by a famous oculist? And years later, was Handel a victim of the same doctor?”

Dorfman’s books span many genres and have been published in more than fifty languages. His plays, performed in more than one hundred countries. He is also a regular contributor to the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, New York Review of Books, The Nation, The Guardian, and El País, with stories having appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Harper’s, and Index on Censorship, among others.

“ALLEGRO” will be available in paperback on March 4. It is published by Other Press Trade.

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