About Anastasia’s Midnight Song
Set during the turbulence of 1917, Anastasia’s Midnight Song follows two troubled young souls drawn together by obsession, exile, and an eerie sense of fate.
Nineteen-year-old Anastasia, of French-Huguenot descent, flees revolutionary Russia to escape a childhood trauma—a haunting belief that a dream fox lives within her. Hoping for peace, she travels to the Sinai Peninsula to work in a mirror manufactory, convinced she can trap the spirit inside the glass. There, she encounters Jack, an English youth hiding from the war and yearning to become a composer. Isolated and melancholic, Jack convinces himself they share a secret telepathic bond, and begins crafting a piece for her—Anastasia’s Midnight Song. As the seasons shift, their lives spiral inward, blurring the line between fantasy and reality.
Will Anastasia escape the ghost of her past—and can Jack face the truth of a love that may never have existed at all?
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Author Bio:
M. Laszlo is the pseudonym of a reclusive author living in Bath, Ohio. According to rumor, he based the pen name on the name of the Paul Henreid character in Casablanca, Victor Laszlo.M. Laszlo has lived and worked all over the world, and he has kept exhaustive journals and idea books corresponding to each location and post.It is said that the maniacal habit began in childhood during summer vacations-when his family began renting out Robert Lowell’s family home in Castine, Maine.The habit continued into the 1990s when he lived in the Muslim Quarter of Jerusalem andworked as a night clerk in a Palestinian youth hostel. In recent years, he revisited that very journal/idea book and based Anastasia’s Midnight Song on the characters, topics, and themes contained within the writings.M. Laszlo has lived and worked in New York City, East Jerusalem, and several other citiesaround the world. While living in the Middle East, he worked for Harvard University’s Semitic Museum. He holds a bachelor’s degree in English from Hiram College in Hiram, Ohio and an M.F.A. in poetry from Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York.