The Ground Beneath Her Feet
(WorldNews Health)

Rukun Advani Advertising The worst train accident in the history of Czechoslovakia, `the Steblova Train Disaster`, happened on Jawaharlal Nehru´s birthday in 1960. Of the 230 people severely injured, 118 did not survive the collision. One of those that did, a musician called Zuzana Ruzickova, was jolted down from her berth and knew something serious had happened to her spine. But her mind was wholly taken up with something else - the complications of a Baroque composition she was scheduled to record the day after. She had no time left for pain, it was either bad back or good Bach. In this memoir of Wagnerian highs and lows, of traumas dulled by triumphs in Nazi-occupied and then...