Min jin kym biography of mahatma
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Gone: a Girl, a Violin, a Life Unstrung
Min Kym
248PP ISBN 9780241263150
Viking £14.99
Readers of The Strad will no doubt be familiar with Min-Jin Kym, and the outline of her story.
A South Korean-born child prodigy, she moved to the UK to become the youngest ever pupil at the Purcell School, and made her international debut aged 13, going on to study with Ruggiero Ricci and perform with many of the world’s leading orchestras.
Her stellar career came to an abrupt halt at 8.55pm on 29 November 2010 at London’s Euston station.
Kym’s beloved Stradivari, on which she’d played for ten years, was stolen by opportunist thieves. It was the stuff of headlines, not least for the incongruity of a million-pound instrument and its owner travelling via national rail.
Her memoir is gripping and heart-rending – unfolding her life story chronologically and, like a perfectly paced thriller, counting down to the moment in which she loses everything.
Kym’s skill is in making the re