Jane Ridley

The food of love | 3 January 2014

With stories by Somerset Maugham and Nadine Gordimer, Love Duet is a compelling anthology by Christopher Ondaatje of how we find love — and ourselves — in music

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issue 04 January 2014

The Albek Duo are two astonishingly beautiful and talented Venetian musicians, Fiona and Ambra, who are identical twins. Hearing the sisters perform inspired Christopher Ondaatje to create this book. He tells a story — ‘Love Duet’ — in which he imagines what would happen if the twins both fell in love with the same man.

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