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Sharon Maas
Sharon Maas was born in Guyana and educated partly in Guyana, partly in England (Harrogate College). As a journalist she travelled extensively through South America and India. Marriage brought her to Germany, where she studied social work and subsequently worked as a probation officer. Now the mother of two children, she has maintained her journalistic interests, contributing to German magazines and newspapers. In addition, she is actively involved with a charitable organisation in Tamil Nadu, South India, visiting every year for voluntary work.
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The Speech of Angels
How far can a special ability take you from your
roots without damaging or destroying you? That's one of the fascinating
threads in Sharon Maas' new exotic saga.
Jyothi was growing up on the streets of Bombay
when she was rescued and adopted by an affluent Western couple,
their contribution to the starving of India. Amazed by the ways
of the West, disturbed by the rules and regulations, unhappy at
school and with her schoolmates, she feels a misfit.
But then, by chance, it is discovered that she
has a rare musical talent. Words might never be easy for her but
music flows from her, encompassing both delicacy and strength in
a remarkable degree. The delicate girl, with her extraordinary looks
and her unique talent, takes the world by storm. And the rootless
Indian waif, Jyothi, becomes the international superstar, Jade.
She loves the concerts, the joy of playing, of
audience pleasure, but she - and her family - discovers the burdens
of fame, too. Jyothi becomes torn between her urge to find her native
roots and her desire to become that Western girl, with that lifestyle,
those men, those values.
The Speech of
Angels, set in India, Germany and England, is a moving,
emotional story of a remarkable girl, her loves and life. It looks
not only at the price of fame, particularly for a child star, but
also at the pleasures and pitfalls of adapting across cultures.
Sharon Maas, whose writing is compared to Isabelle Allende's, has
written her most magical novel to date.
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